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Objects Quotes by Alain de Botton
- 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…
- We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're…
- Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
- What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything.… — Paul Auster
- If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop… — Martha Beck
- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need… — Kelly Lin
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson
- The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,… — William James
- What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects? — Ian Mcewan