Famous Quotes / Alain de Botton
10 Quotations by Alain de Botton
- 1. I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things. The bare fa ...
- 2. I find a welcome interest in the problems of everyday life. I find a humanity and a devotion to usin ...
- 3. I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a ma ...
- 4. In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this ...
- 5. In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a ...
- 6. Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to h ...
- 7. Snobbery exists in all areas of life, not least literary criticism. By snobbery I mean, any method o ...
- 8. Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentia ...
- 9. The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peopl ...
- 10. We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of t ...