Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSClearly, 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Become vision itself.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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