Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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