Author of quotes: Alain de botton

If someone in England says "probably not", it means "absolutely solid, never in my life - no."

After all, the man, the way of existence there is something incredibly comical. We are very serious in their actions are guided by intelligence - but at the same time, funny, physical, physiological. We are simultaneously strong and fragile, clever and stupid, and when all the time keep in mind those opposites are no jokes to come up with one.

The difference between poet and philosopher is that the poet says: "I feel", and philosopher - "I think". The philosopher explains why one feels certain things, then as a poet just registers the feeling. And more importantly - independence of mind. You have to be a philosopher is not to believe everything you read in the papers. To think skeptically.

The philosophers themselves think that they are allowed to speak only on certain topics - mainly those which are reasoned the first philosophers. But really you can philosophize about anything - washing machine, about what you ate for Breakfast, because philosophy is not a subject but a way of thinking.

What is good in literature is that it allows you to feel not so alone. But the flip side of the coin is that you cease to feel unique. It's got to be humiliating.

We were humiliated that badly and unkindly, but we're very excited to accept to what is strong and noble.

What defies our will, something that is beyond her control, can cause anger and rejection, but it may inspire respect and reverence. Depends on, manifests itself the mighty power of the noble or blatantly unworthy.

Not all that is stronger than us, is necessarily hostile.

There is a certain purity in those memories and in anticipation of a visit to a particular place - in the memories and expectations of this place acquires its true value.

Life often behaves like a boring and indistinct narrator, providing endless repetitions, false allusions, pointless accents and leading to nowhere storyline.

If we ourselves tend to forget how large and diverse the world is than what we imagine, it makes no sense to accuse the works of art that they produce for us the same work on the simplification of reality and a sample of only what is really important - at least for the author of the work.

The tragedy of love is that she can't be outside time coordinates. In the society the one you love at the moment, it seems particularly cruel thought about the consequences, you feel in relation to those we loved before. There is something fishy in the knowledge that the person, for which today you are ready to sacrifice everything, after a few months might encourage you to go to the other side of the street just to avoid him.

The best way to clean the calendar of the meetings is to think who of your friends will visit us in the hospital.

Prolonged exposure to art creates indecision, reflection, homosexuality, gout and defeatism.