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.
PLOTINUSWhen 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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 bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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