Thomas Browne Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

  Thomas Browne

  Nature, Philosophy, Philosophical

• The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

  Thomas Browne

  Philosophy, Real, School

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.25

• What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Philosophy, Hair

• To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

  Thomas Browne

  Faith, Philosophy, Believe

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 48.

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