Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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