The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
Alain de BottonOne rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
Alain de BottonThe fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
Alain de BottonWhen you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
Alain de BottonI went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.
Alain de BottonBad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.
Alain de Botton