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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/when-we-look-outside-of-that-on-which-we-depend-we-ignore-our-unity/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

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## More by Plotinus

> [We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/we-are-not-separated-from-spirit-we-are-in-it/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/beauty-is-rather-a-light-that-plays-over-the-symmetry-of-things-than/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/mankind-is-poised-midway-between-the-gods-and-the-beasts/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/this-all-is-universal-power-of-infinite-extent-and-infinite-in/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/one-principle-must-make-the-universe-a-single-complex-living-creature/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/the-stars-are-like-letters-that-inscribe-themselves-at-every-moment/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/life-is-the-flight-of-the-alone-to-the-alone/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/the-soul-that-beholds-beauty-becomes-beautiful/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/knowing-demands-the-organ-fitted-to-the-object/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [Become vision itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/become-vision-itself/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/and-this-is-the-life-of-the-gods-and-of-godlike-men-a-life-without/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/you-can-only-apprehend-the-infinite-by-a-faculty-that-is-superior-to/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/it-is-bad-enough-to-be-condemned-to-drag-around-this-image-in-which/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [“To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/to-make-the-existence-and-coherent-structure-of-this-universe-depend/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

> [In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plotinus/in-this-state-of-absorbed-contemplation-there-is-no-longer-any/)

[Plotinus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plotinus/)

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