What did Alain de Botton mean by: What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think? - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Believe, God Love, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Heart, 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
+ A good half of the art of living is resilience. Feraz Zeid, October 24, 2023December 26, 2023, Alain de Botton, Art, Resilience, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Incentives, Successful, 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
+ It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Closest, Findings, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Crazy, Good Life, Optimism, 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
