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Important Quotes by Alain de Botton
- We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to…
- The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives…
- Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of…
- If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient…
- One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
- what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world…
- People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are…
- It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are…
- We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a…
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