Alain de Botton Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Self Hatred Quotes

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

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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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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

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Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.

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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

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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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True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

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By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

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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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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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It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

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Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.

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