Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events. The reality is children tolerate phase I therapy new agents being tested to find the best dosage and possible side-effects as well as or better than adults, ... Once the initial studies are done that is, phase I trials in adults study should begin in children.

Sometimes clichés are true.

The soul is the principle of life, and it's also something much closer to our own awareness and consciousness of our existence because fundamentally for Plotinus what we are is souls, we're not intellects.

The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.

The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder of neo-Platonism which is the main philosophical tradition of late antiquity.