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.
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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