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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 17

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17. But what can it be which is loftier than that existence- a life compact of wisdom, untouched by struggle and error, or than this Intellect which holds the Universe with all there is of life and intellect? If we answer "The Making Principle," there comes the question, "making by what virtue?" and unless we can indicate something higher there than in the made, our reasoning has made no advance: we rest where we were.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 17

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