All Marsilio Ficino Quotes
- Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love. Art
- What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . . Feet
- [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on… Border
- In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I… Doubt
- There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become… Brain
- The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy… Abstractionist
- The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time. Eternity
- Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of… Affinity
- Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. Book
- Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of… Ambitious
- You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. Feet
- Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy. Anything Live
- Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money. Abounds
- Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them. Ask
- He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself Funny
- Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, -… Aspect
- The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door,… Blinded
- . . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet,… Allow
- Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands. Ears
- A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth… Always Like
- . . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent,… Effect
- [The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word… Audacious
- The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover,… Affirmed
- Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet;… Cleave
- Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning. Beginning