The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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