Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Alain de BottonTag: politics self-delusion politicians difficulties
Sex will never be simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be,It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation and humiliation. It refuses to sit neatly on top of love, as it should.
Alain de BottonTo one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.
Alain de BottonTag: self-loathing twitter
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...
Alain de BottonTag: education
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
Alain de BottonTag: life christianity soul religion atheism needs nourishment nurturing
After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
Alain de BottonTag: death old-age preparation 40
You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.
Alain de BottonTag: writing overuse paragraphs word-usage
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
Alain de BottonTag: life optimism certainty reason confusion craziness desperation good-life
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
Alain de BottonTag: beauty
To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.
Alain de BottonTag: life acceptance appreciation perfection
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