Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order... — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
“This All is universal power, of infinite extent and infinite in potency, a god so great that all his parts are infinite. Name any… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
