Become vision itself.
PLOTINUSAs the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
More Plotinus Quotes
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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