Plotinus Quotes (11+)

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

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

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

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

Everything in the world is full of signs. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.

Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.

The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

Withdraw into yourself and look.

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

Knowledge has three degrees opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition

Knowledge has three degrees opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

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Plotinus (c. 204–270 CE) was a major philosopher of the ancient world whose metaphysics, recorded in 'The Enneads,' bridged classical Greek philosophy with religious thought, profoundly influencing Western and Islamic mysticism for centuries.