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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

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

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

— Peter Adamson

We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul,

— Robert Musil

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

The intellect must be different from the soul.

— Peter Adamson

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

— Madame de Stael

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an…

— Peter Adamson

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

— Thomas Carlyle

Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial intellect would…

— 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