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.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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