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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.

Alain de Botton

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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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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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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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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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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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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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