Daniel Schotman

“One who cares to concider the brilliant discoveries of this age will scarcely doubt that ours is an age of gold, it brought back into the light the liberal disciplines that had nearly been extinguised - grammar, poetry, oratory, painting, sculpture, architecture, music and it happended in Florence, where Platonic learning was recalled from the darkness into the light.”
― Marcilio Ficino

“lngenuas didicissefideliter artes, Emollit mores, necsinit esseferos.' (A faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel).”
― Ovid

“1 Nothing exists. 2. If anything did exist, we could not know it. 3. If we could know that someting existed, we would not be able to communicate it to anyone else.”
― Gorgias of Leontini

“When evening comes, I return home (from the local tavern) and go into my study. On threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workaday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the courts of ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actors, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more of death; I pass indeed into their world.”
― Machiavelli