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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.

Alain de Botton

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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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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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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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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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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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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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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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