Alain de Botton

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"... education ... is a mechanism whereby society attempts to reliably inculcate in its members ... what it took the very brightest and most determined of their ancestors centuries of painful and sporadic efforts to work out. ..."
"... how seriously one would have to consider ugliness. ..."
"For Plotinus, the quality of our surroundings counts ... Beauty ... is a material version of goodness."
"Good art is ..."
"The signal danger of life in a godless society is that it ... leaves us unprepared for disappointment and eventual anihiliation."
"You can't be successful at everything."
“On tenderness in architecture”
A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
Alain de Botton on Pessimism
Does the News Do Us Any Good?
Religion for Atheists
Status Anxiety
The Consolations of Philosophy
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Why We’re Fated to be Lonely