
The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621, Democritus Junior to the Reader
Original engl.: "All poets are mad."
Robert Burton war ein englischer Schriftsteller und anglikanischer Geistlicher und Gelehrter.
Burton verbrachte fast sein ganzes Leben als Erwachsener als Geistlicher und Gelehrter am Christ Church College in Oxford. Er schrieb zunächst wenig erfolgreiche Dramen und unbedeutende Lyrik. Erst sein unter dem Pseudonym Democritus junior veröffentlichtes Buch Anatomie der Melancholie , das fünf ständig erweiterte Auflagen zu Lebzeiten und eine postume Auflage erlebte, wurde ein großer Erfolg. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Abhandlung über den körperlich-geistigen Krankheitszustand der Melancholie, ihrer Geschichte, Ursachen und Heilmöglichkeiten. Sie gilt heute als Vorläufer der psychischen Krankheit Depression. In diesem Buch popularisierte Burton auch die Metapher „Auf den Schultern von Giganten“, deren Urheber Bernhard von Chartres ist, und begründete erste Vorläufer der Kognitionswissenschaft.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621, Democritus Junior to the Reader
Original engl.: "All poets are mad."
Robert Burton: Die Anatomie der Melancholie (orig. The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621), aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Werner v. Koeppenfels nach der Ausgabe letzter Hand, Oxford 1651, 3. Auflage, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-87162-007-6, S.124
„Hat denn der Tag kein Ende? Amor non patitur moras; Liebe leidet kein Zögern.“
Robert Burton: Die Anatomie der Melancholie (orig. The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621), aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Werner v. Koeppenfels nach der Ausgabe letzter Hand, Oxford 1651, 3. Auflage, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-87162-007-6, S.300
"the longest day that ever was, so she raves, restless and impatient; for Amor non patitur moras, love brooks no delays:"
„Idioten und Wahnsinnige erzählen gewöhnlich die Wahrheit.“
-The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621, Democritus Junior to the Reader
Original engl.:Fools and madmen tell commonly the truth.
Robert Burton: Die Anatomie der Melancholie (orig. The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621), aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Werner v. Koeppenfels nach der Ausgabe letzter Hand, Oxford 1651, 3. Auflage, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-87162-007-6, S.122
“Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”
Quelle: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“What can't be cured must be endured.”
Section 2, member 3.
Variante: What can't be cured must be endured.
Quelle: The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.”
Section 1, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 6.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“I light my candle from their torches.”
Section 2, member 5, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.”
Section 3, Member 2, Remedies against discontents.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“The pen worse than the sword.”
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet.
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Section 2, member 3, subsection 7, Envy, Malice, Hatred, Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Kontext: Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth.
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
Quelle: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”
Quelle: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”
Quelle: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 6. Immoderate Exercise a cause, and how. Solitariness, Idleness.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 12, Covetousness, a Cause.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
The Author's Abstract.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
“Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, A Digression of the nature of Spirits, bad Angels, or Devils, and how they cause Melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Out of too much learning become mad.”
Section 4, member 1, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.”
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Section 2, member 3, subsection 11, Concupiscible Appetite, as Desires, Ambition, Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.”
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
Section 2, member 2, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Many things happen between the cup and the lip.”
Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her.”
Section 2, member 6, Perturbations of the mind rectified. From himself, by resisting to the utmost, confessing his grief to a friend, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Be not solitary, be not idle.”
Section 4, member 2, subsection 6, Cure of Despair by Physic, Good Counsel, Comforts, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III