Ficino Quotes

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

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

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy. — Marsilio Ficino

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

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

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

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time. — Marsilio Ficino

Artist in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love. — Marsilio Ficino

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

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

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

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

Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money. — Marsilio Ficino

He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself — Marsilio Ficino

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