Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUSIt is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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