We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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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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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 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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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