Quote

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

Thomas Browne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
Author
Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Mystery
Lose
Loses
Reason
Love
Pursue

More quotes by Thomas Browne

Image
Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
Thomas Browne
Image
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
Image
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
Thomas Browne
Image
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
Thomas Browne
Image
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
Thomas Browne
Image
What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
Thomas Browne
Image
I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
Thomas Browne
Image
Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
Thomas Browne
Image
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
Thomas Browne
Image
We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
Thomas Browne
Image
Think not silence the wisdom of fools but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Thomas Browne
Image
That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
Thomas Browne
Image
Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
Thomas Browne
Image
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.
Thomas Browne
Image
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
Thomas Browne
Image
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Thomas Browne
Image
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
Thomas Browne
Image
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Thomas Browne
Image
There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
Thomas Browne
Image
Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.
Thomas Browne