The religion of one seems madness unto another. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1…

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The religion of one seems madness unto another. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1658). Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths
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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers. ✨ 'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 12
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. ✨ 1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.2, section 1.
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 unncecessar … ▶
It is we that are blind, not fortune. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas CHAPMAN (of Exeter College, Oxford.) (1831). Religio Medici, p.36
To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told me there was a reall truth therein: for first wee a … ▶

The religion of one seems madness unto another. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1658). Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths

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