Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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 soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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