If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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