Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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