I address all these complaints ... against the philosophers who believe and assert that philosophy should not be pursued because no monetary value or reward is assigned it, unmindful that by this sign they disqualify themselves as philosophers. Since their whole life is concentrated on gain and ambition, they never embrace the knowledge of the truth for its own sake.

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496)

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Source: Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496), as translated by Robert Caponigri (1956), p. 35
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Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496)

Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496)

Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496)

Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496)

Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496)

Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496)

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