Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSYou can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
More Plotinus Quotes
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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