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.
PLOTINUSThe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Become vision itself.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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