Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven? — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. — 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 gifts you may, with premeditation, select, these same you may have and possess through your own judgement and decision. The nature of all other creatures is defined and restricted within laws which We have laid down;… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“...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 Image
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
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 Image
