Quote #5
The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.
More from Sir Thomas Browne
- I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.
- Rich with the spoils of nature.
- I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
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- All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.
- Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.
- 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…