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Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton
English Writer
Born: Dec 20, 1969
Life Love Me People Think You
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be. Alain de Botton
Atheist Better Value Think Bit Those Religions Lots Up Normally Than Get Trying Manage Which Things
Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone. Alain de Botton
Good Feel Good Reward Own Hell Nice Virtue Bad Someone Invented Only Feel Like Concepts How Doing Heaven Help Describe
On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space. Alain de Botton
Good Great Space Become Community Live Paper Out Bad Atmosphere Tend Particular Within Sounds Lot Depending Depends Being Sent Workplace
My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own. Alain de Botton
Education Father Made Own My Own He Clear Then Paid
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most. Alain de Botton
People Looking Significant About Most Annoys Learn May Them Things
I think I have grown impatient with just being a writer. Alain de Botton
Think Impatient Writer Just Being Grown
Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people. Alain de Botton
People Characters Admit Adult Course Real Real People Creations Among
I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager. Alain de Botton
Lonely Incredibly Teenager Alienated Very
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else. Alain de Botton
Best Else Bad See Someone Tendencies Developed Cure Them Fully
Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them. Alain de Botton
Needs Will Our Alive Advertising Real Offer Quite Often Just Them Might Us Products Help Satisfy Things
The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives. Alain de Botton
Friendship Seriously Whatever Consider Our Our Lives Visions Ourselves Would Solution Find Take Consumers Perhaps Qualities Surprisingly Very Repose Lovely Them Ask Then Us Should Togetherness Help Lives Actually
If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days. Alain de Botton
Love You Feelings Bit Propel Days Pro Love You Romantic Little Little Bit Disloyal Early Early Days
Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves. Alain de Botton
People Ourselves Marry Some Wrong Understand Really Reason Why
If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely. Alain de Botton
You Soul Will Lonely Partner Know Course Understood Expect Going Maybe Fantastic Your
You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal; it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue. Alain de Botton
Life You Marriage Sometimes Decision Will Gone Think Despair Took Worst Sign Hopes Fine Wrong Track Continue Normal Die Often Order Your Many
I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters. Alain de Botton
Love Characters Ideas Where Happens Interest Much Novels
The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of course, the answer is very simple: 'I just observed myself without sentimentality.' Alain de Botton
Myself Me You People Writing Simple Say Compliment People Say About Observed Know Course Without Answer Greatest How Very Get Did Just Much Sentimentality
Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent. Alain de Botton
Love Long First Party Once Parent Both Adulthood Were End Child May Different Want Loved Mean Each Why Axis
I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises. Alain de Botton
Before Tried About Write Been Off Premises
Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?' Alain de Botton
People Think Television Arena Sort Intellectual Very Trying Irritating Public Why
I guess my overall life plan is to think about issues that concern me and try to use culture generally to make sense of them. I'm more worried that I'm going to die before I've had time. Alain de Botton
Life Time Me Culture Try Before Sense Think Guess Worried About More Generally Had Overall Concern Make Issues Die Going Them Plan Use
What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete. Alain de Botton
Life Me Sense Incomplete Books About Rather No Sense Most Annoys Self-Help Accidentally Tragic Than Fundamentally
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. Alain de Botton
Alone Marriage Down Unpleasant Charm Shameful How Boils Extent
Travel is a lot like love. Alain de Botton
Love Travel Like Lot
Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure. Alain de Botton
Failure Confidence Criticism Too Extraordinary Tremendous Philosopher Philosophy Way Intimidated Distinctive No Exception Exception Price Remarkable She Looks Because Katie Her
In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us. Alain de Botton
Art Inspire Tool Guide Console Argue Redeem Comfort Expand Us Help Therapy
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