The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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