All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Never 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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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