Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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