• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Alain de Botton Quotes
  • Alain de Botton Quotes   372
  • To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Falling In Love Quotes , Lying Quotes
  • The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Country Quotes , May Quotes
  • When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Long Quotes , People Quotes
  • It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Atheist Quotes , People Quotes
  • .. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could. The majority just never gets the chance.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Believe Quotes , Thinking Quotes