The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
- Plotinus
More Quotes By Plotinus
- The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world...
- And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the...
- Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
- Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second,...
- Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
- Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the...
- We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly...
- Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
- You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
- Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
- Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
- Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain...
- We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of...
- Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence...
- Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have...
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