Alain de Botton's Profile
Brief about Alain de Botton: By info that we know Alain de Botton was born at 1969-12-20. And also Alain de Botton is English Writer.
Some Alain de Botton's quotes. Goto "Alain de Botton's quotation" section for more.I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
Tags: Love, Marriage, SocietyBooksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Tags: Anyone, Lonely, TalkPick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
Tags: Care, Life, SuccessfulIt's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Tags: Good, Philosophy, ReasonI passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
Tags: Argument, Depends, SuccessWe may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Tags: May, Reason, RespectThe 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.
Tags: Between, Respect, WarWe 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.
Tags: Beautiful, Rich, StartI was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
Tags: Love, Rather, WritingKant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Tags: Happy, Terrible, WritersI am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
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