Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 204 Death: 270
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself..
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image o….
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another..
We are not separated from spirit, we are in it..
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into….
Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know..
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lu….
When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man cou….
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot..
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing..
The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete..
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; the sc….
There is one and the same soul in many bodies..
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..