Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
PLOTINUSKnowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be 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.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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