Alain De Botton

Quotes

• “The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosoph...”
• “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 you...”
• “The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from b...”
• “One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectiv...”
• “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 them...”
• “Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with h...”
• “We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness....”
• “Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”
• “The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”
• “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
• “There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
• “Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
• “If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.”