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.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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