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I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I'm as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.

~Alain De Botton

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Parents don't reveal how often they have bitten their tongue, fought back the tears, or been too tired to take off their clothes after a day of childcare. The parent loves, but they do not expect the favour to be returned in any significant way.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: After Any Back Been Bitten Childcare Clothes Day Expect Favour Fought How Loves Off Often Parent Parents Returned Reveal Significant Take Tears Tired Tongue Too Way

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Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.

~Alain De Botton

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The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.

~Alain De Botton

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I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA - and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.

~Alain De Botton

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I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises.

~Alain De Botton

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Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'

~Alain De Botton

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I guess my overall life plan is to think about issues that concern me and try to use culture generally to make sense of them. I'm more worried that I'm going to die before I've had time.

~Alain De Botton

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What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.

~Alain De Botton

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To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

~Alain De Botton

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 20th, 1969

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