24 Quotes by Robert A. Burton
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One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
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Naught so sweet as melancholy.
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They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
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Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.
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Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.
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The brain, having never taken a course in philosophy, is the ultimate pragmatist; what is true is what works. Like any successful oddsmaker, the brain is a predictor of probabilities, not a stickler for the perfect answer.
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