After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThose who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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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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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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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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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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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 challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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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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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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