The Heart of Plotinus Quotes

“Thus "the two become one" (ta duo hen ginetai) through "simplification" (haplosis), contemplative vision (theoria), and union (henosis).”
― Algis Uždavinys, The Heart of Plotinus: The Essential Enneads

“Plotinus says: "Shut your eyes, and change to and wake another way of seeing, which everyone has but few use”
― Algis Uždavinys, The Heart of Plotinus: The Essential Enneads

“Plotinus, it would seem, has expounded the principles of Pythagorean and Platonic philosophy more clearly than anyone before him.”
― Algis Uždavinys, The Heart of Plotinus: The Essential Enneads

“This fact is not recognized by most modern Western scholars, who have systematically misunderstood early Hellenic philosophy and failed to take into account its close initial relations with cultic liturgies, theurgic rites, and mythological traditions.”
― Algis Uždavinys, The Heart of Plotinus: The Essential Enneads

“Ennead V.8 (“On the Intelligible Beauty”) represents one of the most beautiful sections in Plotinus, in which the noetic realm is described not in terms of abstract and “ethereal” Platonic Forms, but as a living interpenetrating universe, boiling with life.”
― Algis Uždavinys, The Heart of Plotinus: The Essential Enneads

“Ironically, the Neoplatonic version of religious Hellenism has had a seminal influence on Christianity, most notably on the works of Augustine of Hippo in the Latin West and Dionysius the Areopagite in the Greek East.”
― Algis Uždavinys, The Heart of Plotinus: The Essential Enneads