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.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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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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Become vision itself.
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