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 Quotes
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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Birth: | 24th February, 1463 |
Death: | 17th November, 1494 |
Nationality: | Italian |
Profession: | Philosopher, Writer |
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was born in Mirandola, near Modena, Italy. He was an Italian philosopher and writer. He continued his studies at the University of Padua from 1480 to 1482. 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".
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