Marsilio Ficino
7 quotes
Biography
"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."
"The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time."
"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."
"The people who have discovered something important in any of the more noble arts have principally done so when they have abandoned the body and taken refuge in the citadel of the soul."
"The intellect is prompted by nature to comprehend the whole breadth of being. ... Under the concept of truth it knows all, and under the concept of the good it desires all."
"The rational soul in a certain manner possesses the excellence of infinity and eternity. If this were not the case, it would never characteristically incline toward the infinite. Undoubtedly this is the reason that there are none among men who live contentedly on earth and are satisfied with merely temporal possessions."
"Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again."