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.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
More Plotinus Quotes
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your 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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