Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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