We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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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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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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