Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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 bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Become vision itself.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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