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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

Alain de Botton

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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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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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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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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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