Plotinus Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

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

  Plotinus

  Fear, Soul, Fear Nothing

• Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Eye, Soul

  Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

• 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.

  Plotinus

  Reality, Men, Voice

• There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

  Plotinus

  Soul, Body

  Plotinus, Arthur Hilary Armstrong, Paul Henry, Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer (1984). “Plotinus: Enneads IV”, Loeb Classical Library

• The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

  Plotinus

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Soul

  "DVD Review - Bill Moyers: The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith" by Sam McPherson, September 19, 2011.

• We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it - since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation, from the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body's experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.

  Plotinus

  Men, Two, Soul

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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

  Plotinus

  Soul, Universe

• 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.

  Plotinus

  Karma, Soul, Darkness

• The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.

  Plotinus

  Daughter, Father, Fall

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.784, Delphi Classics

• Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.

  Plotinus

  Two, Soul, Desire

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

• 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

  Soul, Lasts, Knows

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

  Plotinus

  Soul, May, Universe

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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