Quotes by Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety

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Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, le — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they ha — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism. — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to fiel — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of ou — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of med — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not t — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertaint — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited t — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false g — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a res — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual lo — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered. — Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety