One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Become vision itself.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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