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.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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