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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
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We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.
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It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
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Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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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.
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