The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSBut 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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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 in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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