Best Alain de Botton Lines
- Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. Anticipation
- Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with… Anxiety
- Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than… Active
- The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones. Apparently
- How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are… Answered
- Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... Capture
- Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. Abbreviations
- It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane. Attraction
- It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad... Best
- A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator. Beauty
- Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out. Art
- The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having… Accent
- Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and… Age
- Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost… Able
- A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. Almost Like
- Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets… Accurately
- That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect a dissatisfaction with… Alone
- Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to… Airport
- We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease. All
- The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else. Disloyalties
- It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual… Acquaintance
- to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge… Acknowledge
- Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves. Building
- Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is… All
- Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just… Beautiful
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