Quote

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

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
Reason
Nothing
Clout
Much
Martyrs
Make
Wherein
Men
Martyr
Stones
Religion
Lost

More quotes by Thomas Browne

Image
Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
Image
It is we that are blind, not fortune because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.
Thomas Browne
Image
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Thomas Browne
Image
Every Country hath its Machiavel.
Thomas Browne
Image
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.
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
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
Thomas Browne
Image
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Thomas Browne
Image
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
Thomas Browne
Image
Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
Thomas Browne
Image
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
Thomas Browne
Image
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
Thomas Browne
Image
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Thomas Browne
Image
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
Thomas Browne
Image
There is another man within me that's angry with me.
Thomas Browne
Image
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
Thomas Browne
Image
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne
Image
He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
Thomas Browne
Image
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
Thomas Browne
Image
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne