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.
PLOTINUSUntil 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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