Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Become vision itself.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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