What did Alain de Botton mean by: The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Intuition, Judgement, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Tendencies, Unfortunate, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Behavior, Malice, Suffering, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful. Feraz Zeid, October 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Alain de Botton, Angry, Cease, Hopeful, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, God, Soul, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Challenge, Interesting, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Capacity, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Book, Moments, Reading, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
I’m still astounded by some people’s reaction to things I consider quite normal. - Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion designer · France
I’m talkin’ about you. Stop pretending you’re normal. You’re insane. Make that work for you. - Jennifer Crusie Author
Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life. - William J. Clinton Politician · USA
The ‘will to power and independence’ has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal. - William P. Young Author · Canada
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. - Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. - G. Stanley Hall
