It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent… — 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 Copy Share Image
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter… — 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