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Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Plotinus
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Knowledge
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Neoplatonism
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If one wants to know the nature of a thing, one must examine it in its pure state, since every addition to a thing is an obstacle to the knowledge of that thing. When you examine it, then, remove from it everything that is not itself; better still *remove all your stains from yourself and examine yourself*, and you will have faith in your immortality.
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Plotinus
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Knowing the Nature of a Thing
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Neoplatonism
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The All, The Ego
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You increase yourself when you reject everything other than the All, and when you have rejected it, the All will be present to you...The All had no need to *come* in order to be present. If it is *not* present, the reason is that it is *you* who have distanced yourself from it. "Distancing yourself" does not mean leaving it to go someplace else - for it would be there, too. Rather it means turning away from the All, despite the fact that it is there.
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Plotinus
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Neoplatonism
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The All, The Ego
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