In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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