Marsilio Ficino Quotes (24 Quotes)


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

    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.

    Musical consonance occurs in the element which is the mean of all (i.e. air), and reaches the ears through motion, spherical motion so that it is not surprising that it should be fitting to the soul, which is both the mean of things, and the origin of ci.

    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....

    ... 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 ...


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

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

    A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

    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 ...

    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.

    ... 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....

    I seem to hear Montaigne say I ... think an undress and old shoes that do not pinch my feet ... the most suitable.

    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.

    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.


    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....

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

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

    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?

    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 ...

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

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

    In England, The cold, inconsiderate of persons ... benumbs your feet....

    A sturdy lad ... who teams it, farms it ... and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.


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