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.
PLOTINUSAs 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.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSNature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
PLOTINUSKnowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSWe ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
PLOTINUSWe must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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