We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUSCut 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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