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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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- “My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of hum…”Alain de Botton
- “Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.”Alain de Botton
- “In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide,…”Alain de Botton
- “We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.”Alain de Botton
Meaning Of Life: more sayings
- “Your life would never have a meaning if you don’t have a goal or purpose”Sunday Adelaja
- “Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of lif…”Wayne Gerard Trotman
- “Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.”Bangambiki Habyarimana
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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