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Plotinus quotes: Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Plotinus quotes: To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.

To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.

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

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

Plotinus quotes: It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.

It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.

Plotinus quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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 quotes: Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

Plotinus quotes: The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

Plotinus quotes: We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

Plotinus quotes: The world is finite, harmonious, and good.

The world is finite, harmonious, and good.

Plotinus quotes: You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Plotinus quotes: Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

Plotinus quotes: Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

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

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

Plotinus quotes: Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

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

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

Plotinus quotes: Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

Plotinus quotes: It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

Plotinus quotes: Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

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

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

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

Plotinus quotes: Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.

Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.

Plotinus quotes: God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus quotes: Withdraw into yourself and look.

Withdraw into yourself and look.

Plotinus quotes: There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

Plotinus quotes: The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

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

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

Plotinus quotes: I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.