We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWe each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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