More from Sir Thomas Browne

  1. The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.
  2. 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…
  3. I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.
  4. All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.
  5. Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.
  6. I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
  7. Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.
  8. 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…

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