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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. Action, thus, is set towards contemplation and an object of contemplation, so that even those whose life is in doing have seeing as their object; what they have not been able to achieve by the direct path, they hope to come at by the circuit. Further: suppose they succeed; they desired a certain thing to come about, not in order to be unaware of it but to know it, to see it present before the mind: their success is the laying up of a vision.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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