What did Alain de Botton mean by: Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think? Feraz Zeid, June 11, 2023December 25, 2024, Alain de Botton, Confusion, Reflection, Uncertainty, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Despair, Difference, Different, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Desire, Love, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Financial, Obstacles, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Art, Choices, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Book, Sad, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Conversation, Drunkards, Stranger, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge. Feraz Zeid, September 22, 2023December 25, 2024, Alain de Botton, Competition, Revenge, Triumph, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
