In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSA dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in 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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Now 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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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