Quotes by Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

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A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble. — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things shou — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enha — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape... — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
... what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor and onto a craft th — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistib — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Why be seduced by something as small as a front door in another country? Why fall in love with a place because it has tr — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perh — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destinati — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary recept — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. T — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might lo — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel