Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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