But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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More Plotinus Quotes
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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 someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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