Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSBut coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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