The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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 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 must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Never 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.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Become vision itself.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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