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

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

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.

The body distracts your soul.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering.

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.

Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours. -Phury's thoughts

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

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I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking