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.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Become vision itself.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for 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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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