In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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