Brain Quote by Marsilio Ficino
“There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant . . . with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.”
![“. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .” quote by Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dfc/marsilio-ficino-20663_effects_if-writing-lift-you-from-your-feet-with_457799.jpg)
![“[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.” quote by Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ef/marsilio-ficino-20663_audacious_the-imagination-inspires-an-audacious-me_1008045.jpg)
