Skip to content

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

— Thomas Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Another quote →

Topics

Advice

More quotes by Thomas Vaughan

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)

All Thomas Vaughan quotes →

You may also like

A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure — critics are ready-made.

Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Aldous Huxley Point Counter Point (1928)

Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

George Chapman The Gentleman Usher (1606)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Vaughan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.