“The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.”

—  Thomas Aquinas

Source: Commentary on the Metaphysics (c. 1270–1272), 1, 3; quoted in Josef Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture (New York, 1952), p. 88

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Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catho… 1225–1274

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