“Therefore, lord…we believe that you are something than which nothing greater can be thought.”
Proslogion, ch. 2; Gregory Schufreider Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1994) pp. 324-5.
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Ergo domine...credimus te esse aliquid quo nihil maius cogitari possit.
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