We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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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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