Marsilio Ficino: Quotes about the soul

Marsilio Ficino was Italian philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on soul.

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“The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.”

Marsilio Ficino

“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.”

Marsilio Ficino book Platonic Theology

Platonic Theology, Book 13, Chapter 2

“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.”

Marsilio Ficino

Source: Five Questions Concerning the Mind (1495), p. 202