Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSNature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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 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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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