"If you see a philosopher determining all things……" — 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 of this earth."
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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17 Quotes by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative,…
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On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every…
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A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do…
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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…
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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…
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Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for…
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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…
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But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so…
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At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper…
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