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About Alain de Botton
British author and public speaker
Alain de Botton is a British author and public speaker known for writing about contemporary life and for making philosophy feel useful in everyday settings. His work often turns to common experiences and asks how ideas can help explain them. Among his best-known books are Essays in Love, which sold two million copies, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Status Anxiety, and The Architecture of Happiness.
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- “When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.”Alain de Botton
- “The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.”Alain de Botton
- “One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”Alain de Botton
- “Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different.…”Alain de Botton
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- “It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.”Allen Klein
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- “There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.”Idries Shah
Change: more sayings
- “The 'Grace of Kings' begins as a very dark, complicated world filled with injustices - among them the oppress…”Ken Liu
- “For democracy to function properly it requires accepting the absolute right of individuals and groups to camp…”Dominic Grieve
- “You have to have the courage to pull the company up and force them to change and move.”Andy Jassy
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Books by Alain de Botton
The Architecture of Happiness
2008
The news
2014
The course of love
2016
Religion for Atheists
2012
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
2009