Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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