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.
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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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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