Plotinus:

"The essence of Plotinus' metaphysics is:

It is only possible to make things by thinking them, and to think things as a maker by being them."

-- Mr. Christopher Kirwan
Exeter College, Oxford, In "The Oxford Companion To Philosophy".


Nathaniel Alfred Boll writes of Plotinus that:

"With Plotiinus there even appears, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, idealism that had long been current in the East, for it taught (Enneads, iii, lib. vii, c.10) that the soul has made...

What we call 'motion' is really error or self-delusion.

All motions are actually modifications within the self. Belief in 'motion' is due to the lack of ability, on the part of the self, to reduce its experiences to a common conceptual scheme - i.e. it is philosophical ignorance.

Our encounter with the world takes place within the mind. Our experiences in life are but reflections of our own selves.

The world of becoming is as appearances in a mirror. They are but passages of the mind or possibilities arranged in an equation which itself never moves....