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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there’s a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It’s always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
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 me nuts. I can’t accept that. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
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 of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
It’s clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
One of love’s greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
I’ve had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I’ve come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it’s absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies. (Alain De Botton Quotes)
It’s almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, ‘I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.’ (Alain De Botton Quotes)
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions (Alain De Botton Quotes)
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy (Alain De Botton Quotes)
What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think? (Alain De Botton Quotes)
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 others (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value (Alain De Botton Quotes)
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us (Alain De Botton Quotes)
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out (Alain De Botton Quotes)
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 to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand (Alain De Botton Quotes)