Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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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 bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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