Frases de Alain de Botton (152 citas, página 3)

Fuente: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), p. 284.
Contexto: It appeared that the one area in which Sir Bob excelled was anxiety. He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others’ mediocrity—suggesting that a certain kind of intelligence may at heart be nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

“The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.”

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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.”

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Alain de Botton libro The Architecture of Happiness

Fuente: The Architecture of Happiness

“We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.”

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“As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”

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Fuente: Essays In Love

“We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.”

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“Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.”

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“It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.”

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“at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.”

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Alain de Botton libro The Consolations of Philosophy

Fuente: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 80.
Contexto: Though the terrain of frustration may be vast — from a stubbed toe to an untimely death — at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

“If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.”

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Fuente: The Art of Travel

“We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).”

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“If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.”

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