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.
PLOTINUSIf a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
-
-
The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUS -
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUS -
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUS -
One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUS -
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUS -
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUS -
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUS -
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.
PLOTINUS -
Become vision itself.
PLOTINUS