Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Brownewas an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Browne's literary works are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffering from melancholia, his writings are also characterised by wit...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 October 1605
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
The religion of one seems madness unto another.
Women do most delight in revenge.
Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.
For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.