"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon……" — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever."
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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