Alain de Botton Quotes About Philosophy

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  • The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

    "Alain de Botton: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.
  • Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

    "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.
  • Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.

  • In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

    Alain de Botton (2001). “The Consolations of Philosophy”, p.188, Penguin UK
  • It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

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