Faculty Quotes by Plotinus

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

— Plotinus

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

— Plotinus

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

— Plotinus

“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

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

— Plotinus

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

Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.

— Plotinus

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

— Plotinus

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

— Plotinus

Become vision itself.

— Plotinus

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

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

— Plotinus