Porphyry Quotes on Mind
Porphyry of Tyre was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher and the most important pupil of Plotinus. This page collects quotes attributed to Porphyry on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Porphyry:
“The soul, when it has departed from the body, returns to its kindred essence.”
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Attributed to Porphyry:
“The body is the cause of the most numerous and most pernicious distractions.”
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“Soul , indeed, is a certain medium between an impartible essence, and an essence which is divisible about bodies. But intellect is an impartible essence alone. And qualities and material forms are divisible about bodies. Not everything which acts on another, effects that which it does effect by approximation and contact; but those natures which effect any thing by approximation and contact, use approximation accidentally.”
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“I think that when friendship and perception of kinship ruled everything, no one killed any creature, because people thought the other animals were related to them.”
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