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.
PLOTINUSWe may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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