If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSNever 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Until 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.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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