More quotes by Alain de Botton

"The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."
"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."
"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."