As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
PLOTINUSIt is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Become vision itself.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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