Alain de Botton Quotes

I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I'm as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 20, 1969

Topics

WisdomArtI AmSomeonePhilosophy

Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.

Jessica Hahn

GirlGodTrustYouSaidNeed

Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to the football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback's idea.

John Madden

FootballPressureNot KnowingNobody

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

John Stuart Mill

TruthExperienceMenAlwaysOver

I lived in New York for a long time. Right after college I went there. So I got my first cell phone in New York. Back when you would flip the phone up. Way back when.

Stephanie Beatriz

TimeNew YorkCollegeCell PhoneYou

Fashion tells about who you are from external point of view.

Suga

FashionViewYouPoint Of ViewPoint

The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.

Simon Sinek

GoodTimeRelaxFeel GoodChoose

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

Jason Mraz

LiveTimeSchoolHigh SchoolRadio

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Joseph Joubert

OpinionsFeelingsWhoConstantEver

Leadership is service to others.

Denise Morrison

LeadershipServiceService To Others

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

Dorothea Dix

TrainCreateCrimePettyViceMany

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

Colm Toibin

SuccessWritingCountryRunMilitary

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

Common

MusicMeDoingYouArtistJazz

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