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Alain De Botton Quotes

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams Picture Quote #1

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 the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves Picture Quote #1

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence Picture Quote #1

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 beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us? Picture Quote #1

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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere Picture Quote #1

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it Picture Quote #1

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed Picture Quote #1

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 little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination Picture Quote #1

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 to within Picture Quote #1

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there Picture Quote #1

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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter Picture Quote #1

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 they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it Picture Quote #1

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole Picture Quote #1

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do Picture Quote #1

You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol Picture Quote #1

It’s clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do Picture Quote #1

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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be Picture Quote #1

Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person Picture Quote #1

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself Picture Quote #1

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice Picture Quote #1

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved Picture Quote #1

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us Picture Quote #1

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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts Picture Quote #1

The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person Picture Quote #1

We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us Picture Quote #1

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 of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed Picture Quote #1

We wanted to test each other’s capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe Picture Quote #1

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 and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain Picture Quote #1

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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones (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) The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams (Alain De Botton Quotes) 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 the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves (Alain De Botton Quotes) Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence (Alain De Botton Quotes) 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 beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us? (Alain De Botton Quotes) One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere (Alain De Botton Quotes) I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it (Alain De Botton Quotes) I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed (Alain De Botton Quotes) 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 little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination (Alain De Botton Quotes) 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 to within (Alain De Botton Quotes) There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there (Alain De Botton Quotes) Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter (Alain De Botton Quotes) 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 they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it (Alain De Botton Quotes) Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole (Alain De Botton Quotes) Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do (Alain De Botton Quotes) You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol (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) The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be (Alain De Botton Quotes) Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person (Alain De Botton Quotes) Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself (Alain De Botton Quotes) Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice (Alain De Botton Quotes) Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved (Alain De Botton Quotes) We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us (Alain De Botton Quotes) The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts (Alain De Botton Quotes) The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person (Alain De Botton Quotes) We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us (Alain De Botton Quotes) 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 of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed (Alain De Botton Quotes) We wanted to test each other’s capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe (Alain De Botton Quotes) 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 and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain (Alain De Botton Quotes)

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