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.
Marsilio FicinoMany have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.
Marsilio FicinoLaw it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
Marsilio FicinoWho 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 FicinoThere 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.
Marsilio Ficino