One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Become vision itself.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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