“Perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of the Divine Essence.”

—  Thomas Aquinas , book Summa Theologica

Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I–II, q. 3, art. 8 co

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

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