Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSCut 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.
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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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