black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

Related Topics

Being Doth Image Know Last Nature Only Soul Thing Wisdom

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
PLOTINUS

All Away Beauty Bring Cease Chiselling Crook Cut Excessive Form Glow Labour Light Make Overcast Straighten
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUS

All From IT Nothing One Precisely Thing Within
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.
PLOTINUS

Antiquity Body Darkness Dogma Explate Internal Into New Pass Recognize Region Sin Soul Throughout Trait Undergo
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUS

All Back Divine Give Myself Strive
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.
PLOTINUS

Body Experience Feel Himself Instrument Must Share Soul Took Work
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.
PLOTINUS

Birthright Close Eyes Invokem Manner Must Our Put See Though Use Wakefulness
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.
PLOTINUS

Above All Beautiful Beauty Cadence Combination Conduct Higher Kind Life Melodies Mind Sense The Themselves Word
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.
PLOTINUS

Away Beautiful Cut Here Lighter Line Make Other Pure Sculptor Shem Shown Smoothies Status Upon
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.
PLOTINUS

Above Actual Association Body Constitute IT May One Set Since Soul Thing Treat Two Whether Within
There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUS

Body Many One Same Soul There
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUS

Dialectic First Instrument Intuition Mean Second Sense Third
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUS

Another Beauty Being Order Our Ourselves Over Own Possess True Ugliness W
Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUS

Entire Fence Incound Integral Intelligence One Reality Sound Voice
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.
PLOTINUS

Another Beauty Being Ignorance Order Ourselves Over Own Posses Self True Ugly
The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUS

Become Identical Object One Se Seen Such Vision
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUS

Beautiful Ignorance Know Ourselves Self Ugly

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes