70 Quotes by Plotinus

One jests because one wants to contemplate.

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

When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one.

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.

Bad men rule by the feebleness of the ruled; and this is just; the triumph of weaklings would not be just.

This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.

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

To set oneself above intellect is immediately to fall outside it.

Il faut assigner le premier rang à la Beauté, qui est identique avec le Bien et dont dérive l'Intelligence qui est belle par elle-même.