Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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