Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation (1941) by Raymond Bernard Blakney, p. 240
“If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.”
De Libero Arbitrio (388 - 395)
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The Act of Creation, London, (1970) p. 253.
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