Alain de Botton citáty
Alain de Botton
Datum narození: 20. prosinec 1969
Další jména: Alan de Botton, آلن دو باتن
Alain de Botton je švýcarský spisovatel, filozof, televizní producent a podnikatel, který žije ve Velké Británii. Jeho knihy a televizní vystoupení diskutují současná témata a zdůrazňují filosofický rozměr každodenního života. V srpnu 2008 byl de Botton zakládajícím členem nového vzdělávacího zařízení v centru Londýna s názvem Škola života „School of Life“. V roce 2011 byl zvolen za člena Royal Society of Literature .[zdroj?]
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Citáty Alain de Botton
„We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.“
— Alain de Botton, book The Consolations of Philosophy
The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Context: To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant.
We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
Chapter VI, Consolation For Difficulties, p. 228.
„I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed.“
— Alain de Botton
Context: I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries. Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn’t really have the courage to keep battling away at that. In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different. So it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.
As quoted in "The Art of Connection – A Conversation with Alain de Botton" by Kim Nagy in Wild River Review (19 November 2007).
„So it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.“
— Alain de Botton
Context: I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc. Like many others, my career happened like it did because certain doors opened and certain doors closed. You know, at a certain point I thought it would be great to make film documentaries. Well, in fact, I found that to be incredibly hard and very expensive to do and I didn’t really have the courage to keep battling away at that. In another age, I might have been an academic in a university, if the university system had been different. So it’s all about trying to find the best fit between your talents and what the world can offer at that point in time.
As quoted in "The Art of Connection – A Conversation with Alain de Botton" by Kim Nagy in Wild River Review (19 November 2007).
