The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
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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 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
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
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.
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For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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