Quotations by Plotinus

It is none of the things of which it is the source; such is its nature that, though nothing can be affirmed of it, not name, not reason, we can yet say something concerning it.

• On Where the sacred resides, their position: Transcendence90%

This is the life of gods and of godlike and blessed men: a deliverance from all things here below, the flight of the alone to the Alone.

• On The highest good, their position: Virtue / moral perfectionism70%

Withdraw into yourself and look: and if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the sculptor of a statue that is to be made beautiful.

• On Interiority, their position: The examined life95%