Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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