The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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