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Quotes from Religio Medici — Thomas Browne

1605–1682 England

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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)

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

Religio Medici (1643)

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)

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.

Religio Medici (1643)

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)

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

Religio Medici (1643)

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Religio Medici (1642)

A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.

Religio Medici (1643)

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Religio Medici (1643)

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

Religio Medici (1643)

Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.

Religio Medici (1642)

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Religio Medici (1643)

For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.

Religio Medici (1643)

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

Religio Medici (1643)

Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.

Religio Medici (1643)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Browne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.