What did Alain de Botton mean by: The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Blunt, connected, Esoteric, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Dream, Get Over, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Difficulty, Oneself, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Animal, Inability, Suicide, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Not everyone is worth listening to. Feraz Zeid, July 6, 2023December 12, 2023, Alain de Botton, Listening, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. Feraz Zeid, November 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Alain de Botton, Ambitious, Anxiety, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Enough, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Crowds, Newspapers, Stuff, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation. - Frederick Sommer Photographer · USA
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
