Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSThe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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But 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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