At 23 He Proposed Debating 900 Theses. His Core Argument: You Have No Fixed Nature. | Pico

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You have been treating your character as something largely fixed. Not completely - you believe in growth. But underneath the belief is a deeper assumption: the essential self is what it is, the limits are roughly known, the project is refinement rather than creation. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola -