To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image