It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
Alain de BottonThe problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
Alain de BottonGaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
Alain de BottonOur capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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