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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

Alain de Botton

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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 of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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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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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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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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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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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.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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