Marsilio Ficino Quotes

• Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Worry, Live In The Present

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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.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Thinking, Love Is, Magic

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• The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Soul, Eternity

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• En estos tiempos no sé, por así decirlo, lo que quiero; quizá no quiero lo que sé y quiero lo que no sé.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Knowledge, Knowing, Doubt

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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.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Hombres, Uso, Mayo

  Marsilio Ficino (1975). “Liber I”, Shepheard-Walwyn Limited

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• Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Love, Art, Artist

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• Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Creer

  Marsilio Ficino (1975). “Liber I”, Shepheard-Walwyn Limited

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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.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Passion, Journey, Love Is

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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.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Pruebe

  "Liber I".

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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.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Ideas, Substance, Body

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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.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Feet, Imagination, Inspire

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• Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Moving, Eye, Hands

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• You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Friendship, Running, Feet

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

  Marsilio Ficino

  Dream, Freedom, Book

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• El destino del pobre pastor que, cegado y perdido en la tormenta de nieve, perece en la deriva a pocos metros de la puerta de su cabaña, es un emblema del estado del hombre.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Fate, Men, Doors

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• . . . al pobre, a quien la ley no permite tomar . . . un par de zapatos para sus pies helados, se le permite meter la mano en el bolsillo del rico, y decirle: Tú me educarás. . . . .

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  Men, Hands, Law

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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.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Party, Two, Feet

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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. . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Eye, Blood, Hands

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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. . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Beauty, Running, Hero

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• Hay un momento en la historia de cada nación, en que . . . las facultades perceptivas alcanzan su madurez y aún no se han vuelto microscópicas: de modo que el hombre, en ese instante . . . con los pies aún plantados sobre las inmensas fuerzas de la noche, conversa por medio de sus ojos y su cerebro con la creación solar y estelar.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Eye, Night, Men

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• What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Feet, People, Register

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• . . si [la escritura] te levanta de tus pies con la gran voz de la elocuencia, entonces el efecto será amplio, lento, permanente, sobre las mentes de los hombres; .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Writing, Men, Voice

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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 . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Nature, War, Sea

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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?

  Marsilio Ficino

  Success, Men, Feet

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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; . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Power, Feet, Desert

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