Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
Alain de BottonYou need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
Alain de BottonWe should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.
Alain de BottonThe dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
Alain de Botton