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Love is a skill, not a feeling | Alain de Botton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRMcimuuk0Q
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A quotation from Alain De Botton
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the number of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton (b. 1969) Swiss-British author
The Consolations of Philosophy, ch. 4 “Consolation for Inadequacy” (2000)More about this quote: wist.info/de-botton-alain/4070…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alaindebotton #author #bookstore #conversation #loneliness #writing #books
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A quotation from Alain De Botton
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the number of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton (b. 1969) Swiss-British author
The Consolations of Philosophy, ch. 4 “Consolation for Inadequacy” (2000)More about this quote: wist.info/de-botton-alain/4070…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alaindebotton #author #bookstore #conversation #loneliness #writing #books
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A quotation from Alain De Botton
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the number of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton (b. 1969) Swiss-British author
The Consolations of Philosophy, ch. 4 “Consolation for Inadequacy” (2000)More about this quote: wist.info/de-botton-alain/4070…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alaindebotton #author #bookstore #conversation #loneliness #writing #books
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A quotation from Alain De Botton
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the number of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton (b. 1969) Swiss-British author
The Consolations of Philosophy, ch. 4 “Consolation for Inadequacy” (2000)More about this quote: wist.info/de-botton-alain/4070…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alaindebotton #author #bookstore #conversation #loneliness #writing #books
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CRITIQUE OF THE SECULAR IMPERATIVE
Alain de Botton's Atheism 2.0 proposes secular ways to meet needs for community, ritual, and purpose, drawing from religious structures without belief.
#Atheism2, #AlainDeBotton, #Secularism, #MeaningOfLife, #Community
https://newsletter.tf/alain-de-botton-atheism-2-0-secular-meaning/
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CRITIQUE OF THE SECULAR IMPERATIVE
Alain de Botton's Atheism 2.0 proposes secular ways to meet needs for community, ritual, and purpose, drawing from religious structures without belief.
#Atheism2, #AlainDeBotton, #Secularism, #MeaningOfLife, #Community
https://newsletter.tf/alain-de-botton-atheism-2-0-secular-meaning/
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Philosopher Alain de Botton's Atheism 2.0 idea suggests secular frameworks can provide community and ritual, like religions do, for people without belief.
#Atheism2, #AlainDeBotton, #Secularism, #MeaningOfLife, #Community
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Philosopher Alain de Botton's Atheism 2.0 idea suggests secular frameworks can provide community and ritual, like religions do, for people without belief.
#Atheism2, #AlainDeBotton, #Secularism, #MeaningOfLife, #Community
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The Importance of Breakdowns: Crisis as a Clarifying Force for Authenticity
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/18/alain-de-botton-normalcy-breakdown/
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The Importance of Breakdowns: Crisis as a Clarifying Force for Authenticity
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/18/alain-de-botton-normalcy-breakdown/
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The Importance of Breakdowns: Crisis as a Clarifying Force for Authenticity
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/18/alain-de-botton-normalcy-breakdown/
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The Importance of Breakdowns: Crisis as a Clarifying Force for Authenticity
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/18/alain-de-botton-normalcy-breakdown/
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There are two ways to keep a population passive: give them so little news, no one knows what is going on. Or deluge them with so much news, no one can keep track of what matters. - #AlainDeBotton “Quotes to live by” 2022. #AmericanPress
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It’s so normal to want a better life; it’s so unusual to set out to be a better person. - #AlainDeBotton “Quotes to live by” 2022
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A Chosen Path of Light: Alain de Botton on Successful Friendships
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/21/alain-de-botton-friendship/
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A Chosen Path of Light: Alain de Botton on Successful Friendships
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/21/alain-de-botton-friendship/
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A Chosen Path of Light: Alain de Botton on Successful Friendships
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/21/alain-de-botton-friendship/
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People are bad, always, because they are in difficulty. ... Contented people have no need to hurt others. One has to feel very small in order to belittle. - #AlainDeBotton in "The School of Life - an emotional education" 2019
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Remember when we would only “experience a mild wave of melancholy at the tedium of daily routine” ? #LfeBeforeTrump2.0 #AlainDeBotton
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EMOTIONAL WELLBEING: An Honest Conversation With #AlainDeBotton (2020)
In this episode of Honestly, Clemmie Telford is joined by psychologist and founder of #TheSchoolOfLife
He touches on the need for both realism and stoicism; specifically how hardship, struggle and indeed mental unwellness are all part of human existence.
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EMOTIONAL WELLBEING: An Honest Conversation With #AlainDeBotton (2020)
In this episode of Honestly, Clemmie Telford is joined by psychologist and founder of #TheSchoolOfLife
He touches on the need for both realism and stoicism; specifically how hardship, struggle and indeed mental unwellness are all part of human existence.
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EMOTIONAL WELLBEING: An Honest Conversation With #AlainDeBotton (2020)
In this episode of Honestly, Clemmie Telford is joined by psychologist and founder of #TheSchoolOfLife
He touches on the need for both realism and stoicism; specifically how hardship, struggle and indeed mental unwellness are all part of human existence.
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Interesting discussions and inspiration with #AlainDeBotton and Steven Bartlett about #life #sleep #love and how our #childhood influences our #relationship
A good first question for your next 💕 date: “How are you … mad?” 😅
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Interesting discussions and inspiration with #AlainDeBotton and Steven Bartlett about #life #sleep #love and how our #childhood influences our #relationship
A good first question for your next 💕 date: “How are you … mad?” 😅
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Interesting discussions and inspiration with #AlainDeBotton and Steven Bartlett about #life #sleep #love and how our #childhood influences our #relationship
A good first question for your next 💕 date: “How are you … mad?” 😅
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Hardship
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
~ Alain de Bottonslip:4a1352.
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There’s a book by philosopher Alain de Botton called The Art of Travel. In it, he cites Seneca as bemoaning the fact that when you travel you take yourself, with all of your anxieties, frustrations, and insecurities with you. In other words, you might escape your home, but you don’t escape yourself.
This article critically examines the concept of travel, […]https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/08/30/a-philosophy-of-travel/
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Bedtime reading ... #OnLove #AlaindeBotton #Books
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Bedtime reading ... #OnLove #AlaindeBotton #Books
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Bedtime reading ... #OnLove #AlaindeBotton #Books
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Ridiculous
The moral? That there is no greater homage we could pay Proust than to end up passing the same verdict on him as he passed on Ruskin, namely, that for all its qualities, his work must eventually also prove silly, maniacal, constraining, false and ridiculous to those who spend too long on it.
“To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: It does not constitute it.”
Even the finest books deserve to be thrown aside.
~ Alain de Bottonslip:4a1107.
#7ForSunday #AlainDeBotton #Books #MarcelProust #Quotes #Reading -
Ridiculous
The moral? That there is no greater homage we could pay Proust than to end up passing the same verdict on him as he passed on Ruskin, namely, that for all its qualities, his work must eventually also prove silly, maniacal, constraining, false and ridiculous to those who spend too long on it.
“To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: It does not constitute it.”
Even the finest books deserve to be thrown aside.
~ Alain de Bottonslip:4a1107.
#MarcelProust #Books #Quotes #Reading #AlainDeBotton #7ForSunday -
Ridiculous
The moral? That there is no greater homage we could pay Proust than to end up passing the same verdict on him as he passed on Ruskin, namely, that for all its qualities, his work must eventually also prove silly, maniacal, constraining, false and ridiculous to those who spend too long on it.
“To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: It does not constitute it.”
Even the finest books deserve to be thrown aside.
~ Alain de Bottonslip:4a1107.
#MarcelProust #Books #Quotes #Reading #AlainDeBotton #7ForSunday -
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23419.The_Consolations_of_Philosophy The Consolations of #Philosophy
by #AlainDeBotton "...it seemed possible to discern a small group of men, separated by centuries, sharing a loose allegiance to a vision of philosophy suggested by the Greek etymology of the word – philo, love; sophia, #wisdom – a group bound by a common interest in saying a few consoling and practical things about the causes of our greatest griefs.. https://www.youtube.com/@theschooloflifetv #TheSchoolOfLife #bookstodon #books #nonfiction -
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23419.The_Consolations_of_Philosophy The Consolations of #Philosophy
by #AlainDeBotton "...it seemed possible to discern a small group of men, separated by centuries, sharing a loose allegiance to a vision of philosophy suggested by the Greek etymology of the word – philo, love; sophia, #wisdom – a group bound by a common interest in saying a few consoling and practical things about the causes of our greatest griefs.. https://www.youtube.com/@theschooloflifetv #TheSchoolOfLife #bookstodon #books #nonfiction -
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23419.The_Consolations_of_Philosophy The Consolations of #Philosophy
by #AlainDeBotton "...it seemed possible to discern a small group of men, separated by centuries, sharing a loose allegiance to a vision of philosophy suggested by the Greek etymology of the word – philo, love; sophia, #wisdom – a group bound by a common interest in saying a few consoling and practical things about the causes of our greatest griefs.. https://www.youtube.com/@theschooloflifetv #TheSchoolOfLife #bookstodon #books #nonfiction -
@ArgyleSoda I read The Road by #CormacMcCarthy and even tho it was a Pulitzer Prize winner I found it unenjoyable; it may have been well written but the story itself was so unremittingly depressing & horrific… ☹️ What are his other books like?
I’ve always been intimidated to read #Proust the nearest I’ve got is buying (but not reading) ‘How Proust Can Change Your Life’ by #AlainDeBottonClassic authors I love: #Hugo #Austen #Hardy #EMForster #TheBronteSisters #FScottFitzgerald
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@ArgyleSoda I read The Road by #CormacMcCarthy and even tho it was a Pulitzer Prize winner I found it unenjoyable; it may have been well written but the story itself was so unremittingly depressing & horrific… ☹️ What are his other books like?
I’ve always been intimidated to read #Proust the nearest I’ve got is buying (but not reading) ‘How Proust Can Change Your Life’ by #AlainDeBottonClassic authors I love: #Hugo #Austen #Hardy #EMForster #TheBronteSisters #FScottFitzgerald
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@ArgyleSoda I read The Road by #CormacMcCarthy and even tho it was a Pulitzer Prize winner I found it unenjoyable; it may have been well written but the story itself was so unremittingly depressing & horrific… ☹️ What are his other books like?
I’ve always been intimidated to read #Proust the nearest I’ve got is buying (but not reading) ‘How Proust Can Change Your Life’ by #AlainDeBottonClassic authors I love: #Hugo #Austen #Hardy #EMForster #TheBronteSisters #FScottFitzgerald
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@ArgyleSoda I read The Road by #CormacMcCarthy and even tho it was a Pulitzer Prize winner I found it unenjoyable; it may have been well written but the story itself was so unremittingly depressing & horrific… ☹️ What are his other books like?
I’ve always been intimidated to read #Proust the nearest I’ve got is buying (but not reading) ‘How Proust Can Change Your Life’ by #AlainDeBottonClassic authors I love: #Hugo #Austen #Hardy #EMForster #TheBronteSisters #FScottFitzgerald
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOj5KLcymgA #AlainDeBotton #TheSchoolofLife: #Stoicism is a philosophy worked out in Ancient Greece and Rome thousands of years ago, but it remains hugely relevant to our own times: it offers us ways of learning how to cope with anxiety, fear and the dread of losing money, status and love.
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Clichés
The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones. […] Clichés are detrimental in so far as they inspire us to believe that they adequately describe a situation while merely grazing its surface. And if this matters, it is because the way we speak is ultimately linked to the way we feel, because how we describe the world must at some level reflect how we first experience it.
~ Alain De Bottonslip:4a1003.
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Clichés
The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones. […] Clichés are detrimental in so far as they inspire us to believe that they adequately describe a situation while merely grazing its surface. And if this matters, it is because the way we speak is ultimately linked to the way we feel, because how we describe the world must at some level reflect how we first experience it.
~ Alain De Bottonslip:4a1003.
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The moral
The moral? To recognize that our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes and emotional betrayals, and to avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time and the weather.
~ Alaine De Bottonslip:4a987.
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Expanding our understanding
The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding, even if, as Proust warns us, “when we discover the true lives of other people, the real world beneath the world of appearances, we get as many surprises as on visiting a house of plain exterior which inside is full of hidden treasure, torture-chambers or skeletons.”
~ Alain de Bottonslip:4a982.
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Ignorance
A precondition of becoming knowledgeable may be a resignation to, and accommodation with, the extent of one’s ignorance, an accommodation which requires a sense that this ignorance need not be permanent, or indeed need not be taken personally, as a reflection of one’s inherent capacities.
~ Alain De Bottonslip:4a977.
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Why don't people like capitalism?
#AlainDeBotton @ #GoogleZeitgeist
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Why don't people like capitalism?
#AlainDeBotton @ #GoogleZeitgeist
https://youtu.be/BaNZ-TMGN3E
