Full Idea
Aquinas describes the ultimate end of human life as the Beatific Vision, a state that is simultaneously the enjoyment of perfect happiness and a perfect revelation of truth.
Gist of Idea
Life aims at the Beatific Vision - of perfect happiness, and revealed truth
Source
report of Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologicae [1265]) by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski - Virtues of the Mind II 4.2
Book Reference
Zagzebski,Linda: 'Virtues of the Mind' [CUP 1996], p.198
A Reaction
I like that a lot, even though my idea of the revelation of truth is very distant from that of Aquinas. Ignorant happiness is not much of an aspiration.