Monologium, on the Being of God2 Chapter II. The same subject continued.
Chapter II. The same subject continued.
But, just as it has been proved that there is a being that is supremely good, since all goods are good through a single being, which is good through itself; so it is necessarily inferred that there is something supremely great, which is great through itself. But, I do not mean physically great, as a material object is great, but that which, the greater it is, is the better or the more worthy, — wisdom, for instance. And since there can be nothing supremely great except what is supremely good, there must be a being that is greatest and best, i. e., the highest of all existing beings.
Quemadmodum autem inventum est aliquid esse summe bonum, quoniam cuncta bona per unum aliquid sunt bona, quod est bonum per seipsum; sic ex necessitate colligitur aliquid esse summe magnum, quoniam quaecunque magna sunt, per unum aliquid magna sunt, quod magnum est per seipsum. Dico autem non magnum spatio, ut est corpus aliquod; sed quod quanto majus, tanto melius est aut dignius, ut est sapientia. Et quoniam non potest esse summe magnum, nisi id quod est summe bonum, necesse est aliquid esse maximum et optimum, id est summum omnium quae sunt.