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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.

Alain de Botton

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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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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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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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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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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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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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