Alain de Botton Quotes About Study

• We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

  Alain de Botton

  Class, Envy, Feelings

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2013

• The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

  Alain de Botton

  Hints, May, Matter

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

• The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Secret, Fascination

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