The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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