Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
ALAIN DE BOTTONOnly as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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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 mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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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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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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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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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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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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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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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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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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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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