Melancholy Quote by Robert A. Burton Download Open image “Naught so sweet as melancholy.” — Robert A. Burton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Melancholy Misery Sad Sadness Sweet
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life."… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
“the brain has developed a constellation of mental sensations that feel like thoughts but aren’t.” — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
“Imagine how different dialogue might be with future generations raised on the idea that there are biological constraints on our ability to know what… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
“How different the science-religion controversy would be if we acknowledged that a deeply felt sense of purpose is as necessary as hunger and thirst… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not a testable… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
“Though not necessarily aware of when we feel purpose and meaning, we are nearly always aware of the sickening feeling when we don't possess… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
“If a conservationist has more stathmin, less risk-taking gene, and the pro-drilling advocate has less stathmin, more risk-taking gene, how can the two have… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.” — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations. — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
