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.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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