The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUSBeing is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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