Alain de Botton's Quotes

Alain de Botton's Quotes 46

Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because...

Travel is a lot like love.

Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to...

Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense...

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make...

The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their...

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being...

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination...

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst...

Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move...

There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security...

Artworks are especially good at helping our psyches in a variety of ways:...

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes...

Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the...

The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very,...

I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of...

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so...

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that...

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far...

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to...

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is...

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