Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUS
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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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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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.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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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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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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