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Alain de Botton

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A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.


— Alain de Botton


#good-jobs #jobs #life #work #work-life-balance

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.


— Alain de Botton


#love #love

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.


— Alain de Botton


#status #life

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).


— Alain de Botton


#buildings #museums #architecture

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.


— Alain de Botton


#revenge #victories #life

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


— Alain de Botton


#self-esteem #self-hatred #self-love #love

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.


— Alain de Botton


#thoughts #travel #art

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.


— Alain de Botton


#gratitude #money #taxes #wealth #money

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.


— Alain de Botton


#failure #forgiveness #judgmentt #tragedy #art

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


— Alain de Botton


#religion #secularism #art






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It was a bestseller in the US and UK. What's in a Marriage?: Argues that expecting one person to be a good partner lover and parent is almost asking the impossible. —The Independent

Negative reviews allege that de Botton tends to state the obvious from a position of privilege and have characterized some of his books as pompous and lacking focus.

In August 2008 he was a founding member of a new educational establishment in central London called The School of Life. In October that year de Botton was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in recognition of his services to architecture. His books and television programmes discuss various contemporary subjects and themes emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life.

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