What did Thomas Browne mean by: The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out. - Thomas Browne Physician · England Copy
+ Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Browne, Haste, Procrastination, Wise, 0 - Thomas Browne Physician · England
+ Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Browne, Doors, Suicidal, 0 - Thomas Browne Physician · England
+ That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Browne, Improbable, Laughed, 0 - Thomas Browne Physician · England
+ The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Browne, Devil, Heart, 0 - Thomas Browne Physician · England
+ To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Browne, Believe, Faith, Philosophy, 0 - Thomas Browne Physician · England
+ How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Browne, Charitable, Charity, Executioners, 0 - Thomas Browne Physician · England
+ Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Browne, Passion, 0 - Thomas Browne Physician · England
+ No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Thomas Browne, Science, Soul, Temples, 0 - Thomas Browne Physician · England
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France