101 quotes
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
Religio Medici (1643)
How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Religio Medici (1643)
He that unburied lies wants not his hearse,
For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
Religio Medici (1642)
It is a brave act of valour to contemne death, but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.
Religio Medici (1642)
All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.
Religio Medici (1643)
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
Who will not commend the wit of astrology? Venus, born out of the sea, hath her exaltation in Pisces.
We are somewhat more than our selves in our sleepes, and the slumber of the body seemes to bee but the waking of the soule.
Pliny hath an odd and remarkable Passage concerning the Death of Men and Animals upon the Recess or Ebb of the Sea.
I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
Religio Medici (1643)
Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition, and fortunes, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.
Religio Medici (1643)
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable; and it is hard to be so poor that a noble mind may not find a way to this piece of goodness.
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
Christian Morals (1716)
A little before you made a leap in the dark.
Aristotle whilst he labours to refute the ideas of Plato, falls upon one himself: for his summum bonum, is a Chimera, and there is no such thing as his Felicity.
Religio Medici (1643)
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
Religio Medici (1643)
The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
Christian Morals (1716)
Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in diverse elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds.
Religio Medici (1643)
Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)