We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUSClearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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