Animal Quote by Peter Adamson

In fact Plotinus thought not only that soul in general is eternal so that you always have soul, but he thought that each person's…

— Peter Adamson

Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

— Peter Adamson

The soul is the principle of life, and it's also something much closer to our own awareness and consciousness of our existence because fundamentally…

— Peter Adamson

The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.

— Dayananda Saraswati

People often talk about Plotinus' system. The reason they do this is that Plotinus postulated a kind of series or chain of principles, so…

— Peter Adamson

Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul. So this…

— Peter Adamson

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

— Anonymous

For Plotinus, what really exists are the Platonic forms, so the true nature or form of things like justice, beauty, maybe numbers, things like…

— Peter Adamson

There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

— Plotinus

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth…

— James Hillman

“What they used to call soul. What they used to call spirit. Indivisible, complete, that thing made of mind, distinct from body. He thought…

— Joshua Ferris

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson