Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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. 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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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