Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing. — Plotinus Defeat 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
“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
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
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing. — Plotinus Fear 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
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
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
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
“For at this point one would arrive at the act of thinking of it (evil, i.e. κακως) as if to be disproportion… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few… — Plotinus Birthright 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 Birth Copy Share Image
If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right… — Plotinus Goal Copy Share Image
When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward… — Plotinus Faces Copy Share Image
The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete. — Plotinus Inspirational Copy Share Image
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into… — Plotinus Antiquity Copy Share Image
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot. — Plotinus Body Copy Share Image
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly. — Plotinus Beautiful Copy Share Image
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when… — Plotinus Beautiful Copy Share Image
