Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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