In the canon
The Enneads
Plotinus
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 270 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 500
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, never cease chiselling your statue: Plotinus is not talking about marble. He is telling a reader how to become beautiful enough to bear looking at the source of beauty.
never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue
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