Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSUntil there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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