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Small issues are really just large ones that haven't been accorded the requisite attention.

~Alain De Botton

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Travel is a lot like love.

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Topics: Like Lot Love Travel

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I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.

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We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure subjects or who spend most of their day in libraries. But every human is, in an important sense, a carrier of an implicit philosophy - evident in their choices, pronouncements and commitments.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Carrier Choices Commitments Day Every Evident Human Implicit Important Libraries Meant Most Obscure People Philosophers Philosophies Philosophy Produced Professional Sense Spend Subjects Tend Think Who Written

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Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Because Confidence Criticism Distinctive Exception Extraordinary Failure Her Intimidated Looks No Exception Philosopher Philosophy Price Remarkable She Too Tremendous Way

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At 'The School of Life', we take seriously anything that has to do with human fulfilment - and take note wherever insight on this subject can be found.

~Alain De Botton

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The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

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Topics: Art Close Important Life Meaning Meaning Of Meaning Of Life Modern Modern World Something Thinks Very World

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Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question of what art is for. This is a question that has, quite unfairly, come to feel impatient, illegitimate, and a little impudent.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Address Art Been Beginning Century Come Feel Illegitimate Impatient Institutional Little Profound Public Question Quite Relationship Reluctance Since Unfairly Weakened 20Th Century

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I believe that art is a tool and that, like all tools, it has functions. I also think it is important to know what the tool is for so that we can better know how and when to use it.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Also Art Believe Better Functions How Important Know Like Think Tool Tools Use I Believe I Believe That

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In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us.

~Alain De Botton

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 20th, 1969

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