The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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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 of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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