Withdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
More Plotinus Quotes
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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