If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity.

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.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.