Frases de Alain de Botton (152 citas, página 5)

As quoted in de Botton's School of Life lecture, 'On Pessimism' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw1oLtuJOXQ, <br class="br">[transcript] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BcpQlEBiGT6sYmMY8wz0F1rqoWjfC6J-40vhHQZFxxY/edit?pli=1

“Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm’s Human Resources department.”

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Alain de Botton

Fuente: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), p. 244.

“Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.”

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Alain de Botton libro The Consolations of Philosophy

Fuente: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 122.

“I passed by a corner office in which an employee was typing up a document relating to brand performance. … Something about her brought to mind a painting by Edward Hopper which I had seen several years before at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. In New York Movie (1939), an usherette stands by the stairwell of an ornate pre-war theatre. Whereas the audience is sunk in semidarkness, she is bathed in a rich pool of yellow light. As often in Hopper’s work, her expression suggests that her thoughts have carried her elsewhere. She is beautiful and young, with carefully curled blond hair, and there are a touching fragility and an anxiety about her which elicit both care and desire. Despite her lowly job, she is the painting’s guardian of integrity and intelligence, the Cinderella of the cinema. Hopper seems to be delivering a subtle commentary on, and indictment of, the medium itself, implying that a technological invention associated with communal excitement has paradoxically succeeded in curtailing our concern for others. The painting’s power hangs on the juxtaposition of two ideas: first, that the woman is more interesting that the film, and second, that she is being ignored because of the film. In their haste to take their seats, the members of the audience have omitted to notice that they have in their midst a heroine more sympathetic and compelling than any character Hollywood could offer up. It is left to the painter, working in a quieter, more observant idiom, to rescue what the film has encouraged its viewers not to see.”

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Fuente: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), pp. 83-84.

“The unremitting division of labour resulted in admirable levels of productivity. The company’s success appeared to bear out the principles of efficiency laid down at the turn of the twentieth century by the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who theorized that a society would grow wealthy to the extent that its members forfeited general knowledge in favour of fostering individual ability in narrowly constricted fields. In an ideal Paretan economy, jobs would be ever more finely subdivided to allow for the accumulation of complex skills, which would then be traded among workers. … But however great the economic advantages of segmenting the elements of an afternoon’s work into a range of forty-year-long careers, there was reason to wonder about the unintended side effects of doing so. In particular, one felt tempted to ask … how meaningful the lives might feel as a result.”

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Alain de Botton

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009)

“It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.”

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Alain de Botton libro The Consolations of Philosophy

Fuente: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 16.

“Symons … remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited—long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms—what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.”

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Fuente: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), p. 113.

“True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.”

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Alain de Botton libro The Consolations of Philosophy

Fuente: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 33.

“I … thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.”

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p 102-103.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009)

“These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.”

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Fuente: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), p. 281.

“We should not be frightened by appearances.”

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Alain de Botton libro The Consolations of Philosophy

Fuente: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter VI, Consolation For Difficulties, p. 206.

“Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.”

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Alain de Botton libro The Consolations of Philosophy

Fuente: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 7.

“The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although—to the more imaginative at least—a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.”

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Fuente: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), pp. 15-16.

“For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.”

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Fuente: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), p. 288.

“Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.”

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