If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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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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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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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