Conditions Quote by Peter Adamson

The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder of neo-Platonism…

— Peter Adamson

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are…

— Arthur Erickson

In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of…

— Letitia Baldrige

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the…

— Peter Adamson

The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.

— Mary Pilon

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of…

— Tacitus

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

“Among Plato's successors, the most remarkable thinker to pick up this strain of argument is Plotinus. He offers little to those who would pin…

— Henning Genz

Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for [Augustus] to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation, had much…

— Edward Gibbon

“This is important because our behavior is affected by our assumptions or our perceived truths. We make decisions based on what we think we…

— Simon Sinek

“The Romans recognized potential difficulties in advance and always remedied them in time. They never let problems develop just so they could escape a…

— Niccolò Machiavelli