Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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Become vision itself.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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 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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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