Plotinus Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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 use.

  Plotinus

  Eye, Use, Birthright

  Plotinus, Elmer O'Brien (1964). “The Essential Plotinus”, p.42, Hackett Publishing

• Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Eye, Soul

  Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

• We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

  Plotinus

  Patience, Running, Eye

  Plotinus (2005). “The Enneads”, p.153, Penguin UK

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