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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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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.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.
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The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.
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Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.
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It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
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Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone they're for all of us.
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We should not be frightened by appearances.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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