Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
ALAIN DE BOTTONKant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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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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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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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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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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