When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. — Plotinus Copy Share
“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
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. — Plotinus Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
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
