Plotinus

"What measures, then, shall we adopt? What machine employ, or what reason consult by means of which we may contemplate this ineffable beauty; a beauty abiding in the most divine sanctuary without ever …"

"All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another."

"Hence, as Narcissus, by catching at the shadow, plunged himself in the stream and disappeared, so he who is captivated by beautiful bodies, and does not depart from their embrace, is precipitated, not…"

"Plotinus" by Lloyd P. Gerson, at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"The Six Enneads translated into English by Stephen MacKenna and B.S. Page"

"It is now time, leaving every object of sense far behind, to contemplate, by a certain ascent, a beauty of a much higher order; a beauty not visible to the corporeal eye, but alone manifest to the bri…"

"Plotinus" by Edward Moore, at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"It is by participation of species that we call every sensible object beautiful. Thus, since everything void of form is by nature fitted for its reception, as far as it is destitute of reason and form …"