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.
PLOTINUSKnowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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