Quotes by Plotinus

Plotinus

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.

Darkness

Karma

Soul

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Men

Purpose

Wise

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

Flight

Life Is

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.

Beautiful

Beauty

Character

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

Beauty

Light

Play

Become vision itself.

Vision

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.

Men

Reality

Voice

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

Desirable

Identical

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Beautiful

Ignorance

Self

Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.

Cutting

Light

Perfect

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Action

All Things

Beast

Beautiful

Beauty

Birthright

Body

Character

Complexes

Contemplation

Creatures

Cutting

Darkness

Daughter

Defeat

Demand

Desirable

Desire

Determine

Doe

Earth

Enough

Eye

Faith

Fall

Father

Fear

Fear Nothing

Finding Yourself

Flight

Giving

Giving Back

Goal

God

Harmonious

Identical

Ignorance

Ignorant

Illumination

Infinite

Inspirational

Introspection

Inward

Karma

Knowing

Knowledge

Knows

Lasts

Life Is

Light

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Quotes by Plotinus

Plotinus

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.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

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

Become vision itself.

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

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

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