Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSNow we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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