Quotes by Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton

Swiss-born British author

Lived from: 1969 -

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 20 december 1969

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  • The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
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  • The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
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  • There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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  • Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
    A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
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  • We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
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  • We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.
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  • 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.
    How Proust Can Change Your Life
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  • 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.
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  • What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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  • When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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  • I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
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