101 quotes
There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
Religio Medici (1643)
There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.
Religio Medici (1643)
The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.
Religio Medici (1643)
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
Religio Medici (1643)
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
Christian Morals (1716)
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
Religio Medici (1643)
When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
Religio Medici (1642)
I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.
Religio Medici (1643)
In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.
There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
Religio Medici (1642)
Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
Religio Medici (1642)
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.
Religio Medici (1643)
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.
Religio Medici (1643)