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Thomas Vaughan Quotes

b. 1666 Wales

Wales

Also known as: Thomas Vaughan, Eugenius Philalethes

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Be ye transmuted from dead stones into living philosophical stones.

Aristotle thrives by scuffles and the world cries him up, when truth cries him down.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Be pleased to consider, that obstinacy enslaves the Soul, and clips the wings which God gave Her for flight, and discovery.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

They dwell altogether in the face, their endeavors are meer titillations, & their acquaintance with Nature is not at the heart.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Ignorance gave this release the name of death, but properly it is the soul's birth and a charter that makes for her liberty.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Assay nothing without science, but confine your selves to those bounds, which Nature hath prescribed you. p. 70 (last sentence of the book)

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

The peripatetics look on God as they do on carpenters, who build with stone and timber, without any infusion of life. But the world which is God's building is full of spirit, quick and living.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

They are things beyond reasoning sensible, practical truths, not mere vagaries and rambles of the brain.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Great is their number who perhaps had attained to perfection, had they not already thought themselves perfect.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

If thou wilt not quit thy Aristotle, let not any prejudice hinder thy further search.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Besides, their Aristotle is a poet in text, his principles are but fancies, and they stand more on our concessions, then his bottom.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

The peripateticks when they define the soul or some inferior principle describe it only by outward circumstances, which every child can do, but they state nothing essentially.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Learn from thy errors to be infallible, from thy misfortunes to be constant. There is nothing stronger than perseverance, for it ends in miracles.

Anima Magica Abscondita (1650)

I pray for the dead, this is, I wish him a fair remembrance, whose labours have deserved it.

Anima Magica Abscondita (1650)

This is my advice but how welcome to thee I know not.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Notwithstanding I acknowledge the schoolmen ingenious: they conceive their principles irregular, and prescribe rules for method, though they want matter.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Magic is nothing but the wisdom of the Creator revealed and planted in the creature. It is a name — as Agrippa saith — "not distasteful to the very Gospel itself."

Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes, by Arthur Edward Waite (1919)

She hath several ways to break up house, but her best is without a disease. This is her mystical walk, an exit only to return.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

To reconcile this science and the Masters of it to the world is an attempt more plausible than possible, the prejudice being so great that neither reason nor authority can balance it.

Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes, by Arthur Edward Waite (1919)

Friar Bacon walked in Oxford between two steeples, but he that would have discovered his thoughts, by his steps, had been more his fool than his fellow.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

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