Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Become vision itself.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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 principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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