24 Quotes by Robert A. Burton

One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

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.