The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
ALAIN DE BOTTON
Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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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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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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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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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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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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