Marsilio Ficino Professions : Philosopher Born : October 19, 1433 Died : October 1, 1499 Browse All Authors Top 27 quotes by Marsilio Ficino 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 knowing doubt knowledge 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 magic love-is thinking Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy. Marsilio Ficino live-in-the-present worry Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them. Marsilio Ficino use may men The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time. Marsilio Ficino eternity soul 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 [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 imagination feet inspire . . . 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 law men hands Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love. Marsilio Ficino artist love art 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 substance body ideas 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 hands blood Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. Marsilio Ficino freedom dream book 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 taste Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money. Marsilio Ficino believe You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. Marsilio Ficino feet running friendship Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands. Marsilio Ficino eye hands moving 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 fate doors men 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 feet two 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 hero running beauty . . . 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 voice writing men Similar Authors F. H. Bradley philosopher Irving Copi philosopher Ivan Ilyin philosopher Ivan Illich philosopher Bion of Borysthenes philosopher Bonaventure philosopher All Authors
