Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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