32 Quotes by Marsilio Ficino

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

. . . 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. . . .

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.

He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

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.