We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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