And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them… — 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… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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
