Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 204 Death: 270
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are on….
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated.….
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason..
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly..
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use..
Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe.
Withdraw into yourself and look..
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful..
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, i….
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order..
There is one and the same soul in many bodies..
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alon….
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone..
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us..
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so..
We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which i….
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All..
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings..
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object..
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts..
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat..