The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSWithdraw 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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When 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.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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