Pico Della Mirandola Quotes

#1. Every character I've had in my act - none of them have a similar creation story. I actually thought up Peanut and designed him in my head. I described him to a woman that was making soft puppets and she drew up some sketches. And the character came to be just because he popped into my head.

Jeff Dunham

#2. 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.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#3. If you've got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don't.

Garry Marshall

#4. I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love to read most does this as well. I'm a form junkie.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#5. 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

#6. You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.

Ilana Mercer

#7. Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

Hart Crane

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

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#9. 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

#10. 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.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

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

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#12. 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

#13. Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#14. You can lower yourselves to the level of the beast, but you can also be reborn as a divine creature by the free will of your spirit. Man can become what he likes - subhuman or superhuman, as he wishes.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#15. Man's place in the universe is somewhere between the beasts and the angels, but, because of the divine image planted in him, there are no limits to what man can accomplish ...

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#16. Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics.

A.E. Samaan

#17. Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#18. Have you ever heard of tit tape, Sarah?

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#19. 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.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#20. I'm not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

Richey Edwards

#21. Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

Luce Irigaray

#22. 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

#23. You [Mankind] have been given no particular function. You may give your life whatever form you choose, do whatever you wish ... you have no limitations, and can act in accord with your own free will. You alone can choose the limits of your nature.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#24. 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

#25. 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.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#26. There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient of any second place, let us emulate their dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#27. For 'worship' is an abbreviation of 'worthship'.

John R.W. Stott

#28. To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

#29. French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

Jean Cocteau

#30. 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