Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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 soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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