Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The 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.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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