 | Michael Haag - 2004 - 390 páginas
...inhabit the carcass of others' lives. For those wanting to see the city, the words of Plotinus apply: 'To any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what is to be seen.' But not all the inhabitants of cosmopolitan Alexandria left the city; many have stayed behind in its... | |
 | James Swindal, Harry J. Gensler - 2005 - 612 páginas
...brightness, then it sees nothing even though another points to what lies plain to sight before it. To any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what...be seen, and having some likeness to it. Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike, and never can the soul have vision of the First... | |
 | Mary Casey - 2005 - 264 páginas
...is uttered as Splendour: an eternal shtning-forth of the Divine Essence. But, warns Plotinus, ' ... to any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what...be seen and having some likeness to it. Never did eye see the sun less it had first become sun- like, and never can the soul have vision of the Divine... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1924 - 686 páginas
...proportion styled humour. Writing elsewhere of Alexandria, Mr Forster quotes the saying of Plotinus, that "to any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what is to be seen." Wherein lies the secret of the truly civilized traveller, as indeed of the novelist. Only connect.... | |
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To any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what is to be seen, and having some likeness to it. Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful. 
