Thomas Traherne Quotes

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
Thomas Traherne

Enjoy, Stars, Sea

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
Thomas Traherne

Love, Loved, Ourselves

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Thomas Traherne

Mind, Nothing, Book

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
Thomas Traherne

Happiness, Fear, Happy

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
Thomas Traherne

Love, True, Others

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne

Happiness, Company, Misery

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
Thomas Traherne

Moment, Another, Space

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
Thomas Traherne

God, Theatre, Righteous

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Thomas Traherne

Love, Person, Poor

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Thomas Traherne

Happiness, Wisdom, Important

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
Thomas Traherne

Yourself, Body, Till

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
Thomas Traherne

Morning, Yourself, Father

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Clergyman

Born: 1636

Died: October 10, 1674

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