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.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Become vision itself.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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