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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

Alain de Botton

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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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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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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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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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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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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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