black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Related Topics

Another Beauty Being Ignorance Order Ourselves Over Own Posses Self True Ugly

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUS

Entire Fence Incound Integral Intelligence One Reality Sound Voice
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUS

All Anyone External God He Ignorant Present So Thing Though
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUS

Bossy Earth Laways Lie Over Rot Wherever
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUS

Being Unity Virtue
Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUS

Become Dormant Dual Longer No Now Present Sense Thing
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.
PLOTINUS

Above Actual Association Body Constitute IT May One Set Since Soul Thing Treat Two Whether Within
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUS

Become Before Exist Had Here Men Now Other Our Pure Soul We
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUS

All Complex Creature Froma Must Make One Our Principle Single Universe
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PLOTINUS

Affection Aversion Courage Desire Distress Experience Fear Pleasure Seat These
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUS

All Thing Another Fill Full Learn Man Sign Thing Wise
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
PLOTINUS

Birthright Close Eyes Invokem Manner Must Our Put See Though Use Wakefulness
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.
PLOTINUS

Above All Beautiful Beauty Cadence Combination Conduct Higher Kind Life Melodies Mind Sense The Themselves Word
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
PLOTINUS

Defeat Earth Fall Here Life Sink Thing Wing
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUS

Action Dead Determine Does Knowledge Not Too Us
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PLOTINUS

Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison
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.
PLOTINUS

Depend Head Ignore Inward Look Many On One Outside Outward Until Wel When

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes