Neoplatonism
Neoplatonism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
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"Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion."
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Proclus
Philosophy
Neoplatonism
"For this, to draw a right line from every point, to every point, follows the definition, which says, that a line is the flux of a point, and a right line an indeclinable and inflexible flow."
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Plotinus
Philosophy
Neoplatonism
205–270
"An Essay on the Beautiful" as translated into English by Thomas Taylor"
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🇬🇷Iamblichus
Philosophy
Neoplatonism
"If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it."
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Giordano Bruno
Science
Neoplatonism
1548–1600
"I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence."
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Marsilio Ficino
Philosophy
Neoplatonism
1433–1499
"The people who have discovered something important in any of the more noble arts have principally done so when they have abandoned the body and taken refuge in the citadel of the soul."
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Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius
Literature
Neoplatonism
370–430
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Al-Farabi
Philosophy
Neoplatonism
"A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts."
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Notable Quotes
"I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence."
— Giordano Bruno, b. 1548View →
"Giordano Bruno : His Life and Thought by Dorothea Waley Singer"
— Giordano Bruno, b. 1548View →
"Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind."
— Giordano Bruno, b. 1548View →
"The Brave New World of Giordano Bruno by Julia Jones"
— Giordano Bruno, b. 1548View →
"The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion."
— Giordano Bruno, b. 1548View →