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Plotinus QUOTES

  • Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

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

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

  • “The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.”



  • Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.”

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

  • 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

  • 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.”

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


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