219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

The man without a navel still lives in me.

There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

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.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.