Alain de Botton | success
I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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Alain de Botton | society
I’m also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage – which no previous society has ever believed.
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Alain de Botton | respect
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Alain de Botton | marriage
I’m also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage – which no previous society has ever believed.
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Quote from Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Quote from Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief that our work should make us happy. All societies have had work at their centre; ours is the first to suggest that it could be something more than a punishment or a penance. Ours is the first to imply that we should seek to work even in the absence of a financial imperative.
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Quote from Alain de Botton, The Course of Love
We don’t need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.
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