The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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