“attention to trifles is inconsistent with great genius of every kind,” — Plotinus Genius Copy Share Image
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason. — Plotinus Faculty Copy Share Image
“This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.” — Plotinus Cause Copy Share Image
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. — Plotinus Beauty 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… — Plotinus Consent 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 Life Copy Share Image
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another. — Plotinus All things Copy Share Image
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon… — Plotinus Divine Copy Share Image
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing. — Plotinus Defeat 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… — Plotinus Flight 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 Inspirational 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… — Plotinus Contemplation Copy Share Image
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue… — Plotinus Beautiful 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.… — Plotinus All things Copy Share Image
We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the… — Plotinus Dreams Copy Share Image
“He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of… — Plotinus God Copy Share Image
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and… — Plotinus Action Copy Share Image
“For at this point one would arrive at the act of thinking of it (evil, i.e. κακως) as if to be disproportion… — Plotinus Thinking Evil Copy Share Image
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone,… — Plotinus Affection Copy Share Image
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it -… — Plotinus Association Copy Share Image
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all… — Plotinus Beauty Copy Share Image
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing. — Plotinus Fear Copy Share Image
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order... — Plotinus Beauty Copy Share Image
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so. — Plotinus All things Copy Share Image
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. — Plotinus Complexes Copy Share Image
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it. — Plotinus All things 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.… — Plotinus God Copy Share Image
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. — Plotinus Beauty Copy Share Image
