Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspec… - Robert A. Burton
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspec…
- Robert A. Burton
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end. - Robert A. Burton
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man. - Robert A. Burton
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. - Robert A. Burton
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of … - Robert A. Burton
Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of …
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to a… - Robert A. Burton
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to a…
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity. - Robert A. Burton
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
Out of too much learning become mad. - Robert A. Burton
Out of too much learning become mad.
Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations. - Robert A. Burton
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