Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 204 Death: 270
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our ….
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being..
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never ….
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good..
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing..
We are not separated from spirit, we are in it..
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing..
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fence….
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….
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….
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….
The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete..
Become vision itself..
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it - since the association of the two constitutes the one thi….
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself..
Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know..
Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful..
If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct..
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot..
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….
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another..