"Why do we think love is a magician?……" — Marsilio Ficino
"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 one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature."
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Marsilio Ficino
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25 Quotes by Marsilio Ficino
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Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
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What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . .…
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[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It…
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In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I…
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There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness…
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The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises…
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The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
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Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
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Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society…
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You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
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Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
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Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.
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More Affinity Quotes
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
— Bob Beauprez
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it…
— Herman Cain
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.
— Jennifer Aniston
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The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization…
— Unknown Author
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to…
— Blaise Pascal
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
— George Santayana
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
— Howard Gardner
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of…
— Joseph Paxton
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I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to…
— Rajneesh
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