Ambition Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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

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

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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

“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

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

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

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

“...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

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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