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Alain De Botton Quotes

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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time  (Alain De Botton Quotes) The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice  (Alain De Botton Quotes) A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom  (Alain De Botton Quotes) We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped... We suffer, therefore we think  (Alain De Botton Quotes) The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding  (Alain De Botton Quotes) There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most  (Alain De Botton Quotes) The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason  (Alain De Botton Quotes) The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly  (Alain De Botton Quotes) True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Never, ever become a writer. It’s a nightmare  (Alain De Botton Quotes) I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas  (Alain De Botton Quotes) There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.  (Alain De Botton Quotes) We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space  (Alain De Botton Quotes) 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  (Alain De Botton Quotes) The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy  (Alain De Botton Quotes) What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value  (Alain De Botton Quotes) The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones  (Alain De Botton Quotes) A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator  (Alain De Botton Quotes)
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