If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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