One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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