Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. — Plotinus 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. Name any… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
“To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.” — Plotinus Copy Share Image
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
