Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSFrom 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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