Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
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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.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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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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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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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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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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