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?]
Citáty Alain de Botton
„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.“
As quoted in "The Art of Connection – A Conversation with Alain de Botton" by Kim Nagy in Wild River Review (19 November 2007).
Kontext: 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.
„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).
Kontext: 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.
„We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.“
— Alain de Botton, kniha The Consolations of Philosophy
Zdroj: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter VI, Consolation For Difficulties, p. 228.
Kontext: 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.
„It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.“
— Alain de Botton, kniha The Architecture of Happiness
Zdroj: The Architecture of Happiness
„Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.“
— Alain de Botton, kniha Status Anxiety
Zdroj: Status Anxiety
„What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.“
— Alain de Botton, kniha The Architecture of Happiness
Zdroj: The Architecture of Happiness
