Ficino Quotes

#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?

Marsilio Ficino

#2. I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information.

Cass Sunstein

#3. Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.

Marsilio Ficino

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

Marsilio Ficino

#5. The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Marsilio Ficino

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Elizabeth Taylor

#9. 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

#10. She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.

Thomm Quackenbush

#11. Artist in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Marsilio Ficino

#12. 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

#13. Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

Ann Rinaldi

#14. 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

#15. I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family.

Stephen White

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

Marsilio Ficino

#17. 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

#18. What is it that makes a seemingly rational man set out on a perilous journey knowing full well that the odds of success are quite remote and the consequences of failure are likely to be devastating? Is it pride, stubbornness, a yearning for adventure, or just a reckless disregard of reality?

Stan Turner

#19. At every person's birth, he or she is assigned a certain daemon by his own star, a guardian of life to help with his destined task.

Marsilio Ficino

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

Marsilio Ficino

#21. 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

#22. We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

Mother Teresa

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

Marsilio Ficino

#24. I've never played it safe on my own music.

Blake Shelton

#25. [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

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

Marsilio Ficino

#27. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself

Marsilio Ficino

#28. Her mother, of course, would remind her that it was a woman's duty to marry and bear children. It was her only purpose in life. But then her mother had no appreciation for novels.

Jayne Fresina

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

Marsilio Ficino

#30. Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

Gary Becker

#31. [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

#32. 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.

Marsilio Ficino

#33. No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room ...

Marsilio Ficino

#34. 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

#35. How could the human heart hold within its chambers at the same moment such grand measures of nobility and baseness? He wrote in his notebook: Indians at Omaha station: I am ashamed for this thing we call civilization.

Nancy Horan

#36. 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