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Proslogion

Anselm·Latin

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Contains the ontological argument: God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived. If such a being exists only in the mind, a greater being (one that also exists in reality) can be conceived. Therefore God must exist.

And so, Lord, you who give understanding to faith, give me, so far as you know it to be profitable, to understand that you exist as we believe, and that you are what we believe.

Now we believe that you are something than which nothing greater can be thought. Or can it be that a thing of such a nature does not exist, since the fool has said in his heart, there is no God?

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