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Things Quotes by Alain de Botton
- When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at…
- One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
- Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
- As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those…
- I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying.…
- A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
- 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…
- There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's…
- The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected…
- It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in…
- 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…
- Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
- We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs…
- Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the…
- A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity…
- There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
- It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
- Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us,…
- A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle