All Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Quotes
- Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a… Bear
- On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. All
- A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to)… Abode
- To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills. Chooses
- 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… All
- The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. Believe
- 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 compelled… Compelled
- Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the… Admiration
- For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven? Admire
- But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of… Counsel
- But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love… Beauty
- 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… Able
- God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of… Already Built
- Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever. Beginning
- 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,… All
- 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… All
- We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So that with freedom of choice and with honor, As thought… Choice