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Alain de Botton Quote: “We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as ideal as we are corrupt.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We take this idea of love with us into adulthood. Grown up, we hope for a re-creation of what it felt like to be ministered to and indulged. In a secret corner of our mind, we picture a lover who will anticipate our needs, read our hearts, act selflessly and make everything better. It sounds ‘romantic’; yet it is a blueprint for disaster.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “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 Quote: “Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Objects mimic in a material dimension what we require in a psychological one. We need to rearrange our minds but are lured towards new shelves. We buy a cashmere cardigan as a substitute for the counsel of friends. We.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “There is usually a Marxist moment in every relationship, the moment when it becomes clear that love is reciprocated.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer ’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “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 Quote: “Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm’s Human Resources department.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not self.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We place such demands on our partners, and become so unreasonable around them, because we have faith that someone who understands obscure parts of us, whose presence solves so many of our woes, must somehow also be able to fix everything about our lives. We exaggerate the other’s powers in a curious sort of homage – heard in adult life decades down the line – to a small child’s awe at their own parents’ apparently miraculous capacities.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It’s very hard to respect people on holiday – everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity – but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it’s a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The accusations we make of our lovers make no particular sense. We would utter such unfair things to no one else on earth. But our wild charges are a peculiar proof of intimacy and trust, a symptom of love itself – and in their own way a perverted manifestation of commitment. Whereas we can say something sensible and polite to any stranger, it is only in the presence of the lover we wholeheartedly believe in that can we dare to be extravagantly and boundlessly unreasonable. A.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “If drawing had value even when practiced by those with no talent, it was, Ruskin believed, because it could teach us to see – that is, to notice rather than to merely look. In the process of re-creating with our own hands what lies before our eyes, we seem naturally to evolve from observing beauty in a loose way to possessing a deep understanding of its constituent parts and hence more secure memories of it.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “He entertains a confused wish to help her, without, however, understanding that help can be a challenging gift to deliver to those who are most in need of it.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need – but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need – within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We want our buildings to speak to us of whatever we find important and need to be reminded of.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “But reassurance can be the cruelest antidote to anxiety. Our rosy predictions both leave the anxious unprepared for the worst.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The sole cause of a man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Never having been betrayed sets up poor preconditions for remaining faithful. Evolving into genuinely more loyal people requires us to suffer through some properly innoculative episodes, in which we feel for a time limitlessly panicked, violated and on the edge of collapse. Only then can the injunction not to betray our spouses evolve from a bland bromide into a permanently vivid moral imperative.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “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 too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “There is an Arabic saying that the soul travels at the pace of a camel. While most of us are led by the strict demands of timetables and diaries, our soul, the seat of the heart, trails nostalgically behind, burdened by the weight of memory. If every love affair adds a certain weight to the camel’s load, then we can expect the soul to slow according to the significance of love’s burden.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Seeing through people is so easy, and it gets you nowhere,′ remarked Elias Canetti, suggesting how effortlessly and yet how uselessly we can find fault with others.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “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?”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word ‘beautiful’, alludes to a state that, on a psychological level, we can describe as mental health or happiness. Like buildings, we, too, contain opposites which can be more or less successfully handled.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “One of love’s greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “In an ideal world, marriage vows would be entirely rewritten. At the altar, a couple would speak thus: “We accept not to panic when, some years from now, what we are doing today will seem like the worst decision of our lives. Yet we promise not to look around, either, fro we accept that there cannot be better options out there. Everyone is always impossible. We are a demented species.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.”
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