Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in 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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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