Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUSEverything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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