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All Quotes by author - 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 the highest admiration. "
Principal
Privilege
Admiration
" 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. "
God
Happy
Own
" 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. "
Nothing
Best
Different
" 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. "
Poverty
Creation
Father
" But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. "
Work
Love
Plan
" For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven? "
Heaven
Blessed
Angels
" 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. "
Father
God
Mysterious
" 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. "
Earth
You
Reason
" 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. "
Praise
Generosity
God
" On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. "
Way
Father
He
" Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever. "
Beginning
Become
Either
" The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. "
Degrade
Believe
Even
" Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. "
Maturity
Plant
Seeds
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