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.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from 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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