There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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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