Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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 bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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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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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.
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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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