Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
Must being in love always mean being in pain?
I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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