Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Withdraw 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.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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