Plotinus Quotes

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• Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
• Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
• You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
• The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
• Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
• 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…
• Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
• Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
• Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
• Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds…
• The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are…
• We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to…
• We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
• God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
• The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
• All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
• Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not…
• There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
• Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to…
• We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order...

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