“We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 85.
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The Consolations of Philosophy
The Consolations of Philosophy is a nonfiction book by Alain de Botton. First published by Hamish Hamilton in 2000, subsequent publications have been by Penguin Books.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 148
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 80.
Context: Though the terrain of frustration may be vast — from a stubbed toe to an untimely death — at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter V, Consolation For A Broken Heart, p. 199.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 163.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 9.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 146.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), p. 21.
“Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 83.
… Our souls do not spell out their troubles.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), pp. 53-54.
“The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter V, Consolation For A Broken Heart, p. 200.
“It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 25.
“There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 23.
“Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter II, Consolation For Not having Enough Money, p. 72.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter II, Consolation For Not having Enough Money, p. 57
“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 168.
“Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter II, Consolation For Not having Enough Money, p. 65.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 92.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 84.
“Not everyone is worth listening to.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 33.
