Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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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.
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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