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Beauty Quote by Plotinus

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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in 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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

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“This All is universal power, of infinite extent and infinite in potency, a god so great that all his parts are infinite. Name any…

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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events…

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Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.

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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

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Become vision itself.

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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…

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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

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