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.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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 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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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.
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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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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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