“Man reaches the highest point of his knowledge about God when he knows that he knows him not, inasmuch as he knows that that which is God transcends whatsoever he conceives of him.”

— Thomas Aquinas

Source: De potentia (c. 1265–1266) q. 7, art. 5, ad 14

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

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