22 ordspråk av Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton föddes den 20 december 1969
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us

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

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

I find a welcome interest in the problems of everyday life. I find a humanity and a devotion to using thought to alleviate suffering.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

Literature has always had its circus side, its freaks and its frivolities - and maybe that's all part of it, and no bad thing if it draws people towards what is most worthwhile.

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

I used to walk past this block of flats and wonder: 'Who could have built that? What were they thinking? What were they trying to do?

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or those who never allow us to kiss them (we soon forget them), but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

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