The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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 soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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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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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 demands the organ fitted to the object.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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