In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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