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Plotinus

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Plotinus

Born around 205 CE in Roman Egypt, Plotinus developed Plato's thought into a grand metaphysical system in which all reality emanates in stages from a supreme principle he called 'the One.' His major work, the Enneads, compiled by his pupil Porphyry, profoundly influenced Augustine, Islamic philosophy, and the intellectual tradition known as Neoplatonism.

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Source: エンネアデス 第5巻第3篇第17章 (Enneads V.3.17)Verified

Plotinus's Other Quotes

Strive to return the divine in yourself to the divine in all.

Evil, too, has its place within the scheme of the Good.

It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.

Let us flee then to the beloved Fatherland.

Related Quotes

Let us flee then to the beloved Fatherland.

-- Plotinus

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether, and that anyone who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

-- Richard Wagner

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

-- Ludwig van Beethoven

Every unity either participates in the One or is itself the One.

-- Proclus

All beings proceed from the One.

-- Proclus