Skip to main content

. . . if [writing] lift you fr...

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

There is a moment in the histo...

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 Ficino 32 quotes

A sturdy lad . . . who teams i...

A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

[Nature said] The sea shall di...

[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars . . . seafaring . . .

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

The abstractionist and the mat...

The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

The soul exists partly in eter...

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Why do we think love is a magi...

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 32 quotes

Books that distribute things.....

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

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Who can wonder at the attracti...

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 32 quotes

You are running to seek your f...

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

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Never worry about anything. Li...

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Everyone believes that he abou...

Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Mortal men ask God for good th...

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

He tastes nothing who has not ...

He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Artists in each of the arts se...

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

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Poetry being an attempt to exp...

Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

The fate of the poor shepherd,...

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

. . . the poor man, whom the l...

. . . 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. . . .

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Law it is . . . which hears wi...

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

What is odious but . . . peopl...

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

Marsilio Ficino 32 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....