Quotes by : Alain de Botton

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things,....

Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response....

My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out....

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

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

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

We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.

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

Standing before costly objects of technological beauty, we may be tempted to reject the possibility of....

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded....