Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
ALAIN DE BOTTONPeople who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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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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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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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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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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