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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will…
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On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of…
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A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if…
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To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.
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Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil…
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The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
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It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others…
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Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the…
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For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
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But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not…
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But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a…
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At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself…
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements…
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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a…
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
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Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil…
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works…
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It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is…
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Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
— Confucius
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Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
— Joe Davis
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