Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PLOTINUSKnowledge 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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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