"The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly rev… - Alain de Botton

"The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Alain de Botton

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About Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton (born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British philosopher and author. His books and television programs discuss various contemporary subjects and themes in a philosophical style, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. De Botton comes from a Sephardic Jewish family, originating from a small Castilian town of Boton (now vanished) on the Iberian peninsula.

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If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things should be thus. We are the playthings of the forces that laid out the oceans and chiselled the mountains.

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.

"The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury. - Alain de Botton

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