The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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