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1 Intro| style and subject, having a beauty ‘as of a statue,’ while
2 Intro| birth. And love is not of beauty only, but of birth in beauty;
3 Intro| beauty only, but of birth in beauty; this is the principle of
4 Intro| a mortal creature. When beauty approaches, then the conceiving
5 Intro| beautiful minds, and the beauty of laws and institutions,
6 Intro| until he perceives that all beauty is of one kindred; and from
7 Intro| single science of universal beauty, and then he will behold
8 Intro| leaven, and will behold beauty, not with the bodily eye,
9 Intro| incidentally that love is always of beauty, which Socrates afterwards
10 Intro| Agathon, that love is of beauty, not however of beauty only,
11 Intro| of beauty, not however of beauty only, but of birth in beauty.
12 Intro| beauty only, but of birth in beauty. As it would be out of character
13 Intro| himself. For he who has beauty or good may desire more
14 Intro| of them; and he who has beauty or good in himself may desire
15 Intro| good in himself may desire beauty and good in others. The
16 Intro| abstract ideas of good and beauty, which do not admit of degrees,
17 Intro| satisfied, in the perfect beauty of eternal knowledge, beginning
18 Intro| knowledge, beginning with the beauty of earthly things, and at
19 Intro| and at last reaching a beauty in which all existence is
20 Intro| same in both. The ideal beauty of the one is the ideal
21 Intro| respectively the source of beauty and the source of good in
22 Intro| pass from images of visible beauty (Greek), and from the hypotheses
23 Intro| faculties.~The divine image of beauty which resides within Socrates
24 Intro| progress (Symp.) by the beauty of young men and boys, which
25 Intro| enthusiasm for the ideal of beauty—a worship as of some godlike
26 Intro| and modesty as well as of beauty, the one being the expression
27 Intro| at the perfect vision of beauty, not relative or changing,
28 Intro| in the sea of light and beauty or retains his personality.
29 Intro| to have attained the true beauty or good, without enquiring
30 Text | and abides. Concerning the beauty of the god I have said enough;
31 Text | of the gods—the love of beauty, as is evident, for with
32 Text | especially struck with the beauty of the concluding words—
33 Text | true, Love is the love of beauty and not of deformity?~He
34 Text | Then Love wants and has not beauty?~Certainly, he replied.~
35 Text | wants and does not possess beauty?~Certainly not.~Then would
36 Text | given by the possession of beauty?’ ‘To what you have asked,’
37 Text | have in view is birth in beauty, whether of body or soul.’ ‘
38 Text | procreation which must be in beauty and not in deformity; and
39 Text | the beautiful harmonious. Beauty, then, is the destiny or
40 Text | therefore, when approaching beauty, the conceiving power is
41 Text | flutter and ecstasy about beauty whose approach is the alleviation
42 Text | generation and of birth in beauty.’ ‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Yes, indeed,’
43 Text | He wanders about seeking beauty that he may beget offspring—
44 Text | himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the
45 Text | one form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if
46 Text | of another; and then if beauty of form in general is his
47 Text | not to recognize that the beauty in every form is and the
48 Text | he will consider that the beauty of the mind is more honourable
49 Text | more honourable than the beauty of the outward form. So
50 Text | contemplate and see the beauty of institutions and laws,
51 Text | and to understand that the beauty of them all is of one family,
52 Text | family, and that personal beauty is a trifle; and after laws
53 Text | sciences, that he may see their beauty, being not like a servant
54 Text | servant in love with the beauty of one youth or man or institution,
55 Text | contemplating the vast sea of beauty, he will create many fair
56 Text | which is the science of beauty everywhere. To this I will
57 Text | perceive a nature of wondrous beauty (and this, Socrates, is
58 Text | in any other place; but beauty absolute, separate, simple,
59 Text | begins to perceive that beauty, is not far from the end.
60 Text | for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only,
61 Text | at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what
62 Text | knows what the essence of beauty is. This, my dear Socrates,’
63 Text | in the contemplation of beauty absolute; a beauty which
64 Text | contemplation of beauty absolute; a beauty which if you once beheld,
65 Text | had eyes to see the true beauty—the divine beauty, I mean,
66 Text | the true beauty—the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear
67 Text | holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine? Remember
68 Text | communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind,
69 Text | bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has
70 Text | residing within! Know you that beauty and wealth and honour, at
71 Text | images of such fascinating beauty that I was ready to do in
72 Text | seriously enamoured of my beauty, and I thought that I should
73 Text | must see in me some rare beauty of a kind infinitely higher
74 Text | with me and to exchange beauty for beauty, you will have
75 Text | and to exchange beauty for beauty, you will have greatly the
76 Text | of me; you will gain true beauty in return for appearance—
77 Text | derisive and disdainful of my beauty—which really, as I fancied,
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