In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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