"How are we to take these references to the gods of Greece or Rome? Or, how are we to interpret his quaint and occasionally downright insane remedies? He advices a person lacking in the spirit of Jupiter, for example, to add peppermint to his diet. Is this legend, folklore, precocious pharmacology, or pure metaphor?"
(Thomas Moore; The Planets Within, on Marcilio Ficino)
"... Soul - psyche - and psychology, these are not merely personal things; they're about the whole world.." (me, from my paper journal)
(Thomas Moore; The Planets Within, on Marcilio Ficino)
"... Soul - psyche - and psychology, these are not merely personal things; they're about the whole world.." (me, from my paper journal)
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