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.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Become vision 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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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