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.
PLOTINUSNever did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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