Thomas Browne Quotes

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

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

I would not live over my hours past … not unto Cicero’s ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.

The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

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.