Full Idea
Plotinus, according to his biographers, was ashamed to have a body.
Gist of Idea
Plotinus was ashamed to have a body
Source
Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §29)
Book Reference
Feuerbach,Ludwig: 'Principles of the Philosophy of the Future', ed/tr. Vogel,M [Hackett 1986], p.48
A Reaction
When Feuerbach draws our attention to this, we see what an astonishing state it is for a human being to have got into. Modern thought is appalled by it, but it also has something heroic about it, like swimming all the time because you want to be a fish.