Alain de Botton Quotes, Mind Quotes, New Work Quotes

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

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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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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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It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

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We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.

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It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

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One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

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The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.

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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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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

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Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.

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I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths.

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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

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Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

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Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

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If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

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