One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
More Plotinus Quotes
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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 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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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