Quotes by Plotinus

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beaut >>

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is >>

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though >>

Quotations about Beauty

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute t >>

Beauty rests on necessities. >>

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it ne >>

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus