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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
Italian
Birth day:
February 24
Birth year:
1463

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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 privilege of the highest admiration. Giovanni-Pico-della-MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola
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    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, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all. Giovanni-Pico-della-MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola
  • 3
    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 possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. Giovanni-Pico-della-MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola
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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 the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. Giovanni-Pico-della-MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola
  • 5
    For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven? Giovanni-Pico-della-MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola
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    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 His mysterious wisdom. Giovanni-Pico-della-MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola
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    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. Giovanni-Pico-della-MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola
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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 should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. Giovanni-Pico-della-MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola
  • 9
    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-MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola
  • 10
    Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever. Giovanni-Pico-della-MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola