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.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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