I'm sure that Plotinus wasn't that impressed by the Christians.

Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death.

Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato.

When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you should be doing which is contemplating.

There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them.

This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.

Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissension among the philosophical schools of antiquity.

We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.

The body is some kind of image of you, it's kind of something that's just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle, which doesn't really represent who you really are.

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

A love song is just a caress set to music.