Full Idea
If some mind could think of something better than thou, the creature would rise above the Creator and judge its Creator; but this is altogether absurd.
Gist of Idea
Conceiving a greater being than God leads to absurdity
Source
Anselm (Proslogion [1090], Ch 3)
Book Reference
'The Existence of God', ed/tr. Hick,John [Macmillan 1964], p.26
A Reaction
An error, revealing a certain desperation. If a greafer being could be conceived than the being so far imagined as God (a necessarily existing being), that being would BE God, by his own argument (and not some arrogant 'creature').
Related Idea
Idea 21243 An existing thing is even greater if its non-existence is inconceivable [Anselm]