Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
More Plotinus Quotes
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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