Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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 a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Become vision itself.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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