Quotes by Marsilio Ficino - Page 1

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
Marsilio Ficino / Philosopher
Eternity
Soul
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Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.
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Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
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Live In The Present
Worry
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Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
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Art
Love
Artist
Arts
Seek
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You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
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Friendship
Running
Feet
Seek
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Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
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Impressed
Melancholy
Saturn
Seems
Beginning
Seal
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What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .
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Feet
People
Register
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No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .
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Men
Feet
Rooms
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Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.
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Men
May
Use
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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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Dream
Freedom
Book
Daring
Feet
Distribute
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Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
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Eye
Hands
Moving
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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 know and want what I don't know.
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Journey
Knowledge
Desire
Doubt
Knowing
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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; . . .
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Power
Desert
Feet
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The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.
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Body
Ideas
Substance
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Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.
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. . . 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; . . .
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Men
Voice
Writing
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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 the successful orator?
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Success
Men
Attractiveness
Bribe
Feet
Wonder
Bar
Young Men
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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, is an emblem of the state of man.
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Men
Doors
Fate
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Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood. . . .
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Blood
Eye
Hands
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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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Love Is
Magic
Thinking
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. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .
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Men
Hands
Law
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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, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.
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Journey
Love Is
Passion
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Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .
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Beauty
Running
Feet
Hero
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[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 every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars . . . seafaring . . .
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Nature
War
Sea
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[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.
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Imagination
Feet
Inspire
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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.
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Men
Eye
Night
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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 the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.
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Feet
Party
Two
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