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Marsilio Ficino

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Marsilio Ficino was an Italian philosopher born in October 1433 and died on October 1, 1499. He was an influential figure of the Renaissance period, known for his studies and dissemination of Platonic philosophy.

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“People always live badly today; they only live well tomorrow. For the sake of ambition they strive against each other with evil deeds, but the path to glory would be easier to tread by doing good to one another. Although they always speak evil, they hope to be well spoken of themselves; although they do evil, they hope to receive good. We proclaim that we are the authors of good, but that God is the author of evil.”

God Moral Fate Humankind Actions The Best Is Yet To Come

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“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. . . .”

Ifs Giving Hands Eye Sides Wealth Blood Feet Tools Extensions

Author:Marsilio Ficino

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

Men Rooms Feet Claims

Author: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.”

Ideas Body Known Intellect Substance

Author:Marsilio Ficino

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

Love Art Care Artist

Author:Marsilio Ficino

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

People Feet Register Toasts

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“[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 . . .”

People Giving Long Said War Sides Nature Poverty Sea Feet Long Time England Borders Fierce Nationality

Author: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.”

Knows Want Desire Knowledge Knowing Doubt Uncertainty Doubtful Clergymen Unclear

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“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.”

Men Stills Moments Eye Night Force Nations Brain Feet Creation Historical Instant His Eyes Immense Converses Stellar Ripeness

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“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.”

Two Party Feet Middle Worst Balance Labor Thirds Plant Extremes Arise Materialism Skeptic Beam Middle Ground Third Parties Scoffers

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.”

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“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.”

Thinking Whole Certain Love Is Magic One Thing Attraction Magician Affinity

Author:Marsilio Ficino

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

Book Use Dream Freedom Feet Daring Absolute Freedom

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“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?”

Men Success Young Wonder Successful Feet Highest Bars Young Man Ambitious Bribe Attractiveness Orators

Author:Marsilio Ficino

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

Needs Mind Running Friendship Feet

Author:Marsilio Ficino

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

Worry Live In The Present

Author:Marsilio Ficino

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

Book:Liber I

Source: Liber I

“Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.”

Men May Use Asks Praying Good Things Mortals

Book:Liber I

Source: Liber I

“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.”

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“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. . . .”

Soul Facts Running Common Beauty Feet Hero Aspect Structure Common Sense Poetry Is Inches Fables

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“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.”

Men States Lost Poor Fate Doors Feet Losing Storm Snow Shepherds Blinded Cottages Emblems Snow Storms

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“. . . 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. . . .”

Men Doe Hands Law Poor Rich Feet Shoes Pockets Pairs Educate Poor Man Freezing Pair Of Shoes

Author:Marsilio Ficino

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

Hands Eye Moving Law Feet Ears

Author: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; . . .”

Ifs Men Writing Mind Voice Feet Effects Wide Lifts Permanent Eloquence Great Voice

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“[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.”

Imagination Feet Inspire Habit Conversation Fancy Gas Galaxy Pits Audacious Gunpowder

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“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.”

Order Passion Walks Love Is Journey Walking Disease Doctors Wander Melancholy Hiking Physicians Trekking Fasting Drunkenness Strolling Antiquity Sauntering

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“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; . . .”

Power Feet Share Thee Desert Crowns Laurels

Author:Marsilio Ficino

About the Author

Born: October 19, 1433
Died: October 1, 1499
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 27

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