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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola [1463-1494] Italian

Rank: 104
Writer, Philosopher

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy, and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man, which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance", and a key text of Renaissance humanism and of what has been called the "Hermetic Reformation".

Wisdom, Beauty, Home, Power

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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.	Power, Wisdom	101
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.		102
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.	Home, Wisdom	103
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.		104
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.		105
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.		106
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.		107
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.		108
For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?		109
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.	Beauty	110
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.		111
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.		112
Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.		113

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