Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton, FRSLis a Swiss-born, British-based self-help philosopher and public speaker. His books and television programmes discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. At 23, he published Essays in Love, which went on to sell two million copies. Other bestsellers include How Proust Can Change Your Life, Status Anxietyand The Architecture of Happiness...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth20 December 1969
lonely book should
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.
book way oneself
The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.
philosophy book sound
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
book best-effort taste
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
book writing years
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.
jobs book holiday
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.
book giving feelings
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
book sadness console
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...
book secret maps
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
book writing sick
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.
book done remains
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
book glasses lessons
We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.
lonely book writing
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
book emotion good-book
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.