Plotinus, 'The One' and the Source of MatterThe ideas that Plotinus developed as a neoplatonist writing about seven hundred years after Plato acknowledged the prior ancient philosophical work by pre-Socratic philosophers on elucidating the concept of ?The One? unified being that creates everything else that exists through another aspect of himself.

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Plotinus, 'The One' and the Source of Matter
The ideas that Plotinus developed as a neoplatonist writing about seven hundred years after Plato acknowledged the prior ancient philosophical work by pre-Socratic philosophers on elucidating the concept of ?The One? unified being that creates everything else that exists through another aspect of himself.

— Gary Gibson

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

— Ray Bradbury

All the ideas just came out. We were crying, laughing when we were writing it.

— Jeannie Long

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.

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A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

— Isaac Asimov

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