Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWhich seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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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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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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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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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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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.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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