Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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