219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

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.

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to doe what reason cannot teach us? ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, Whales, Elephants, Dromidaries and Camels; these I confesse, are the Colossus and Majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow Engines there is more curious Mathematicks, and the civilitie of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdome of their Maker.

Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the Art of God.

Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, ’tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.