To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

Alain de Botton

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Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.

Alain de Botton

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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Alain de Botton

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Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Alain de Botton

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Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.

Alain de Botton

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The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

Alain de Botton

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An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

Alain de Botton

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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.

Alain de Botton

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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

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