If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven? — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
“We have given you, O Adam, no visage proper to yourself, nor endowment properly your own, in order that whatever place, whatever form, whatever… — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola Copy Share
If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
“...There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient… — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola Copy Share
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So that with freedom of choice and with honor, As… — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola Copy Share
It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share
