Q0182

Plotinus

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

Withdraw into yourself and look.
Thinker Plotinus
School Neoplatonism
Source Enneads I.6.9
Theme Self
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Enneads I.6.9, within the tradition of Neoplatonism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of self, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Plotinus's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

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MLA: Plotinus. “Withdraw into yourself and look..” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0182.

Chicago: Plotinus. “Withdraw into yourself and look..” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0182.

Same theme

More on self

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  3. I searched for myself.
  4. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
  5. Claim yourself for yourself.

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