Quotes by : Alain de Botton

Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's....

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness....

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes....

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves....

The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets....

In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed....

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for,....

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