Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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