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Marsilio Ficino Quotes

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands Picture Quote #1

. . . 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; . . Picture Quote #1

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. . . Picture Quote #1

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love Picture Quote #1

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning Picture Quote #1

He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself Picture Quote #1

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Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money Picture Quote #1

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy Picture Quote #1

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time Picture Quote #1

What is odious but... people... who toast their feet on the register Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

... 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 Picture Quote #1

Law it is... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands Picture Quote #1

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again Picture Quote #1

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Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands. (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) . . . 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; . . . (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) 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. . . . (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) What is odious but... people... who toast their feet on the register (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) 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 (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) 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 (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) 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 (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) 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 (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) ... 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 (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) Law it is... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) 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? (Marsilio Ficino Quotes) Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again (Marsilio Ficino Quotes)