Quote #4
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.
More from Sir Thomas Browne
- I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
- The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.
- Many from the ignorance of these Maxims, and an inconsiderate zeal unto Truth, have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as T…
- Rich with the spoils of nature.
- I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with me in that…
- We carry with us the wonders, we seek without us: There is all Africa, and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of n…
- All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.
- Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.