5 Sir Thomas Browne Quotes on Philosophy

Sir Thomas Browne quotes on philosophy

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.

23. I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar act of coition; It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.

32. Aristotle whilst he labours to refute the Idea's of Plato, falls upon one himself: for his summum bonum, is a Chimera, and there is no such thing as his Felicity.

40. A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's Den, and are but Embryon Philosophers.

65. The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.