More quotes by Alain de Botton

"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."
"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."