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Alain de Botton quotes about thinking

English Writer December 20, 1969

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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as..."
For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as to stop having to think of love. Alain de Botton
.. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could. The majority just never gets the chance. Alain de Botton
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals,... Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there...."
The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning. Alain de Botton
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. Alain de Botton
It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at... Alain de Botton
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely? in the deeper sense, lonely. Alain de Botton
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. Alain de Botton
We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think. Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, What am I supposed to..."
And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think? Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost..."
It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy. Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't..."
The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well. Alain de Botton

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