Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly. — Plotinus Beautiful Copy Share Image
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third,… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but… — Plotinus Inspirational Copy Share Image
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order... — Plotinus Beauty Copy Share Image
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few… — Plotinus Birthright Copy Share Image
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. — Plotinus Complexes Copy Share Image
“This All is universal power, of infinite extent and infinite in potency, a god so great that all his parts are infinite.… — Plotinus God Copy Share Image
“He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of… — Plotinus God Copy Share Image
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. — Plotinus Beauty Copy Share Image