“Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe.”

— Thomas Aquinas , Summa contra Gentiles

Source: Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265) I, 1, 2

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

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