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Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance,…

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Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

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God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'

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All visible things would not claim as their king some color of their region, which is actually among the visible things of this region,…

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There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from their partaking of the One, that statement would self-destruct. For, surely, these plural beginnings would be both alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One, and not alike, by virtue of…

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Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out…

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Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.

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In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

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All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

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You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings…

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