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• When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.

  Plotinus

  Men, Unity, Inward

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.676, Delphi Classics

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• We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

  Plotinus

  Beauty, Order, Ugliness

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.545, Delphi Classics

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• Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

  Plotinus

  Soul, Lasts, Knows

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• Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

  Plotinus

  Beauty, Light, Play

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• 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

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• The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

  Plotinus

  Soul, May, Universe

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• Become vision itself.

  Plotinus

  Vision

  Plotinus, Elmer O'Brien (1964). “The Essential Plotinus”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.

  Plotinus

  Unity, Virtue

  Plotinus (1930). “Enneads: On the One and good”

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• One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

  Plotinus

  Principles, Creatures, Complexes

  Plotinus (1966). “Plotinus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

  Plotinus

  Reality, Men, Voice

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• The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

  Plotinus

  World, Harmonious

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• Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

  Plotinus

  Lying, Body, Earth

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• The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.

  Plotinus

  Daughter, Father, Fall

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.784, Delphi Classics

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• We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it - since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation, from the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body's experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.

  Plotinus

  Men, Two, Soul

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

  Plotinus

  Portraiture, Enough, Should

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• Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

  Plotinus

  Identical, Desirable

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.541, Delphi Classics

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• A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.

  Plotinus

  Karma, Soul, Darkness

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• Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

  Plotinus

  Wings, Earth, Defeat

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• Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

  Plotinus

  Knowing, Demand, Organs

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.518, Delphi Classics

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• If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

  Plotinus

  Lying, Goal, Trying

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• Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.

  Plotinus

  Two, Soul, Desire

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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