Anselm of Canterbury
Now I promise confidently that if any man shall devise anything existing either in reality or in concept alone (except that than which a greater cannot be conceived) to which he can adapt the sequence of my reasoning, I will discover that thing, and will give him his lost island, not to be lost again.
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1080 · Anselm's Reply to Gaunilo, ch. 3
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