As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Become vision itself.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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