Philosophy Quote by Alain de Botton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”

“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”

“There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”

“One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”

“Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.”

“When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.”

“...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.”

“When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.”

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

“Existence is beyond the power of words”