Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne -
Religio Medici
80 Sourced Quotes
View all Thomas Browne Quotes
Source
Report...
Sleep is a death; oh, make me try
By sleeping what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave as now my bed.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
I boast nothing, but plainely say, we all labour against our owne cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
This triviall and vulgar way of coition; It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will deject his coold imagination, when hee shall consider what an odde and unworthy piece of folly hee hath committed.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
This trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
All places, all airs make unto me one country: I am in England, everywhere, and under any meridian.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
Thus there are two bookes from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universall and publik Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
It is common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny; but I have no confidence on those which are fathered on the dead.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live... in divided and distinguished worlds; for though there be but one [world] to sense, there are two to reason; the one visible; the other invisible.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
For who can speake of eternitie without a solœcisme, or thinke thereof without an extasie? Time we may comprehend, 'tis but five dayes elder then our selves.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
There is surely a Physiognomy, which those experienced and Master Mendicants observe… For there are mystically in our faces certain Characters that carry in them the motto of our Souls, wherein he that cannot read A. B. C. may read our natures.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar act of coition; It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition, and fortunes, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
Aristotle whilst he labours to refute the ideas of Plato, falls upon one himself: for his summum bonum, is a Chimera, and there is no such thing as his Felicity.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
The world that I regard is myself, it is the Microcosme of mine own frame, that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my Globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition, and fortunes, do erre in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
In briefe, all things are artificiall, for nature is the Art of God.
Thomas Browne
Source
Report...
I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of a horse. It is my temper, & I like it the better, to affect all harmony, and sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
Thomas Browne
1
2
3
4
Quote of the day
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
Georges Bataille
Thomas Browne
Creative Commons
Born:
October 19, 1605
Died:
October 19, 1682
(aged 77)
More about Thomas Browne...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes