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«Beauty is the light that plays over the symmetry of things, rather than the symmetry itself.»

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A free and widely circulated paraphrase of Enneads VI.7 [38].22, where Plotinus says that beauty is rather what shines upon the symmetry than the symmetry itself. It circulates as a literal quotation, but it is not one; the original passage should be quoted.

المصدر: Plotino. Enéadas. Texto griego en Wikisource en griego; trad. inglesa de Stephen MacKenna (vols. 1–4, 1917–1926) y de MacKenna y B. S. Page (vol. 5, 1930), en Wikisource en inglés.

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  • «Let us flee then to the beloved Fatherland.»

    Enéadas I 6 [1], 8 (citando la Ilíada). Griego: Wikisource; inglés: Stephen MacKenna; español: traducción propia.

  • «Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue […] and never cease chiselling your statue.»

    Enéadas I 6 [1], 9. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: Stephen MacKenna; español: traducción propia.

  • «Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.»

    Enéadas I 6 [1], 9. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: Stephen MacKenna; español: traducción propia.

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