All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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.
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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.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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