Best Alain de Botton Quotations
- Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no… Atheist
- It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings… Able
- I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to… Abstract
- Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried. All
- True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence. Check
- People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft. Draft
- Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts. Condemned
- Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack… Condemn
- One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully. Art
- Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing. Comfortable
- Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day. Day
- There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that… Business
- As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. Absurd
- The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we… Art
- The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous. Available
- It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range of emotions and… Access
- So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe. Ache
- Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'. Always Described
- One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone. Advanced
- Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess. Actually Possess
- The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along. Along
- For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care. All
- Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and… Anxiety
- The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a… Act
- Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people. Better
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