On man when he came into life the Father... by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | We Heart Quotes

Life Man philosopher Italy Metaphysics

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 Mirandola

Other quotes by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Work Love

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.

- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Right Being

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 Mirandola

Plants Men

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Admiration May

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 Mirandola

Man Will

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.

- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

God Love

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 Mirandola

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