I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
ALAIN DE BOTTONPerhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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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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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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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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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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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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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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