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    Marsilio Ficino

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    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

    #doubt #hope #uncertainty #doubt

    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

    #love #magic #philosophy #renaissance #spirituality

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


    — Marsilio Ficino

    #impressed #me #melancholy #saturn #seal

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


    — Marsilio Ficino

    #artists #arts #care #each #love

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


    — Marsilio Ficino

    #friend #mind #need #run #running

    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? ↗


    — Marsilio Ficino

    #attractiveness #bar #bribes #feet #highest

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


    — Marsilio Ficino

    #books #daring #distribute #dreams #feet






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    His Florentine Academy an attempt to revive Plato's school had enormous influence on the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy. Marsilio Ficino (Italian: [marˈsiljo fiˈtʃino]; Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus; 19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance an astrologer a reviver of Neoplatonism who was in touch with every major academic thinker and writer of his day and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin.

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