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.
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 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.
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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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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.
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Clearly, 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.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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