All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Become vision itself.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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