Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSAs 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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from 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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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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