Marsilio Ficino's Quotes

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

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

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

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

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?

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

For economist the real world is often a special case.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.