All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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