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Anselm of Canterbury

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Anselm of Canterbury · 1033–1109

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“He built the single most audacious argument in the history of philosophy — two sentences that claim to prove God exists — and after nine hundred years of the world's best minds attacking it, nobody fully agrees on where it goes wrong.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 82

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“Faith should go looking for understanding — and reason, pushed hard enough, can prove the existence of God from a definition alone.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 82

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