The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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