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The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

~Alain De Botton

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We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even if I don't explain what's wrong.

~Alain De Botton

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When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.

~Alain De Botton

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The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.

~Alain De Botton

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The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.

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The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

~Alain De Botton

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Sometimes I say to people, 'Do you think you're easy to live with?' People who are single. And the ones who say, 'Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty easy to live with; it's just a question of finding the right person,' massive alarm bell rings in my mind.

~Alain De Botton

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The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.

~Alain De Botton

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It's great to get an 'F', but you also want to give the sense that there's something outside achievement. I've seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don't feel they've achieved much.

~Alain De Botton

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What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

~Alain De Botton

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 20th, 1969

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