Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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