234 | We couldn't discuss the non-existence of the One without knowledge of it [Plato] |
13227 | Being is better than not-being [Aristotle] |
2633 | Epicurus saw that gods must exist, because nature has imprinted them on human minds [Epicurus, by Cicero] |
20810 | Rational is better than non-rational; the cosmos is supreme, so it is rational [Zeno of Citium] |
2634 | It seems clear to me that we have an innate idea of the divine [Cicero] |
21242 | If that than which a greater cannot be thought actually exists, that is greater than the mere idea [Anselm] |
21241 | Even the fool can hold 'a being than which none greater exists' in his understanding [Anselm] |
1421 | A perfection must be independent and unlimited, and the necessary existence of Anselm's second proof gives this [Malcolm on Anselm] |
21244 | Conceiving a greater being than God leads to absurdity [Anselm] |
21243 | An existing thing is even greater if its non-existence is inconceivable [Anselm] |
21245 | The word 'God' can be denied, but understanding shows God must exist [Anselm] |
21246 | Guanilo says a supremely fertile island must exist, just because we can conceive it [Anselm] |
21247 | Nonexistence is impossible for the greatest thinkable thing, which has no beginning or end [Anselm] |
3639 | Necessary existence is a property which is uniquely part of God's essence [Descartes] |
3640 | Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle [Descartes] |
2268 | One idea leads to another, but there must be an initial idea that contains the reality of all the others [Descartes] |
2274 | The idea of God in my mind is like the mark a craftsman puts on his work [Descartes] |
2287 | Existence and God's essence are inseparable, like a valley and a mountain, or a triangle and its properties [Descartes] |
2288 | I cannot think of a supremely perfect being without the supreme perfection of existence [Descartes] |
17169 | Some things makes me conceive of it as a thing whose essence requires its existence [Spinoza] |
21856 | Spinoza says a substance of infinite attributes cannot fail to exist [Spinoza, by Lord] |
17178 | Denial of God is denial that his essence involves existence, which is absurd [Spinoza] |
21858 | God is being as such, and you cannot conceive of the non-existence of being [Spinoza, by Lord] |
4820 | God must necessarily exist, because no reason can be given for his non-existence [Spinoza] |
2116 | The concept of an existing thing must contain more than the concept of a non-existing thing [Leibniz] |
2113 | God alone (the Necessary Being) has the privilege that He must exist if He is possible [Leibniz] |
19325 | God is the first reason of things; our experiences are contingent, and contain no necessity [Leibniz] |
3889 | God's existence is either necessary or impossible [Leibniz, by Scruton] |
15633 | We establish unification of the Ideal by the ontological proof, deriving being from abstraction of thinking [Hegel] |
4188 | Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof [Schopenhauer on Hegel] |
6913 | God's existence cannot be separated from essence and concept, which can only be thought as existing [Feuerbach] |
3307 | Frege put forward an ontological argument for the existence of numbers [Frege, by Benardete,JA] |
1422 | God's existence is either necessary or impossible, and no one has shown that the concept of God is contradictory [Malcolm] |
20704 | A possible world contains a being of maximal greatness - which is existence in all worlds [Plantinga, by Davies,B] |
3308 | In the ontological argument a full understanding of the concept of God implies a contradiction in 'There is no God' [Benardete,JA] |
4066 | It seems that 'exists' could sometimes be a predicate [Crane] |
19653 | The ontological proof of a necessary God ensures a reality external to the mind [Meillassoux] |