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World Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
- Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story…
- Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
- 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…
- Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to…
- If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a…
- Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of…
- The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without…
- 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…
- 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…
- It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our…
- A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily…
- We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to…
- In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
- 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…
- The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach