Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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 may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Become vision itself.
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