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Inspirational Quotes by Plotinus
- Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
- The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
- Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
- 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.
- 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.
- There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
- We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order...
- Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
- The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
- Withdraw into yourself and look.
- Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.
- It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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