My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“How we feel about 'the nature of existence' is largely determined by what we have to do in the next few hours.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I believe that the sight is more important thing that the drawing; and i would rather teach drawing that my pupils may… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Confident that cast-iron walls separate our nature and situation from theirs, comfortable in the well-broken-in saddle of our high horse, we have… — Alain De Botton Copy Share Image
“...the news should help us with mourning the twisted nature of man and reconciling us to the difficulty of being able to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“creature on earth seemed to Schopenhauer to be equally committed to an equally meaningless existence: Contemplate the restless industry of wretched little… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
![“It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.” quote by Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b34/alain-de-botton-221_accepting_it-is-not-just-nature-that-defies-us-hum_2567295.jpg)
