Alain de Botton: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)
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Origine: How Proust Can Change Your Life
“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”
Variante: Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Origine: The Course of Love
Origine: The Course of Love
Origine: Essays in Love
“We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.”
Alain de Botton
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The Consolations of Philosophy
Origine: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 85.
As quoted in "The Art of Connection – A Conversation with Alain de Botton" by Kim Nagy in Wild River Review (19 November 2007).
Contesto: I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries. Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn’t really have the courage to keep battling away at that. In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different. So it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.
Alain de Botton
libro
The Consolations of Philosophy
Origine: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter VI, Consolation For Difficulties, p. 228.
Contesto: To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant.
We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
As quoted in "The Art of Connection – A Conversation with Alain de Botton" by Kim Nagy in Wild River Review (19 November 2007).
Contesto: I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries. Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn’t really have the courage to keep battling away at that. In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different. So it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.