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Alain de Botton ist ein britisch-schweizerischer Schriftsteller und Fernsehproduzent.

✵ 20. Dezember 1969   •   Andere Namen آلن دو باتن, Alan de Botton
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“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”

Variante: Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Quelle: The Course of Love

“There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.”

Alain de Botton buch The Consolations of Philosophy

Quelle: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 23.

“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”

Alain de Botton buch The Consolations of Philosophy

Quelle: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 168.

“We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.”

Alain de Botton buch The Consolations of Philosophy

Quelle: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 85.

“Not everyone is worth listening to.”

Alain de Botton buch The Consolations of Philosophy

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

“I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed.”

As quoted in "The Art of Connection – A Conversation with Alain de Botton" by Kim Nagy in Wild River Review (19 November 2007).
Kontext: I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries. Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn’t really have the courage to keep battling away at that. In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different. So it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.

“We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.”

Alain de Botton buch The Consolations of Philosophy

Quelle: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter VI, Consolation For Difficulties, p. 228.
Kontext: To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant.
We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

“So it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.”

As quoted in "The Art of Connection – A Conversation with Alain de Botton" by Kim Nagy in Wild River Review (19 November 2007).
Kontext: I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries. Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn’t really have the courage to keep battling away at that. In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different. So it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.”

Alain de Botton buch The Consolations of Philosophy

Quelle: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 148

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