12 Quotes By Thomas Browne


Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Thomas Browne on age

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne on alone

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne on art

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Thomas Browne on death

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne on death

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Thomas Browne on faith

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Thomas Browne on faith

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne on god

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Thomas Browne on humor

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne on nature

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne on society

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Thomas Browne on evil