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Plotinus Quotes about Beauty

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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.

Plotinus
Beauty, Beautiful, Character
Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

Plotinus
Beauty, Order, Ugliness
Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.545, Delphi Classics

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Plotinus
Beauty, Light, Play

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