For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?

- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our s…

- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

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 myster…

- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

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

- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

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 reg…

- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

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…

- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

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

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 need…

- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

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