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Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us.” P. 38-39
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.
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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).
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
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Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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