Alain de Botton Order Quotations
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- Paulo Coelho
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Camus
- Nhat Hanh
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Marianne Williamson
- Pope Francis
- Thomas Jefferson
- Leo Tolstoy
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- William James
- Adolf Hitler
- Aristotle
- C S Lewis
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Saint Augustine
- Dalai Lama
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Ludwig Von Mises
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Self Quotes
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.
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Ideas Quotes
The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.
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Giving Quotes
We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.