Alain de Botton: Cytaty po angielsku
“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”
Wariant: Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Źródło: The Course of Love
Źródło: The Course of Love
Źródło: Essays in Love
“There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.”
Źródło: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 23.
“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”
Źródło: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 168.
“We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.”
Źródło: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 85.
“Not everyone is worth listening to.”
Źródło: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 33.
As quoted in "The Art of Connection – A Conversation with Alain de Botton" by Kim Nagy in Wild River Review (19 November 2007).
Kontekst: 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.
Źródło: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter VI, Consolation For Difficulties, p. 228.
Kontekst: 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).
Kontekst: 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.
“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
Źródło: Status Anxiety
Źródło: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 148
