This philosophy of pessimism offers a solution to a lot of distress and agitation around marriage. It might sound odd, but pessimism relieves the excessive imaginative pressure that our romantic culture places upon marriage. The failure of one particular partner to save us from our grief and melan...
The emotionally intelligent appreciate the role of well-handledpessimismwithin the overall economy of a good life. Emotional intelligenceisn't an inborn talent. It's always a result of education, specificallyeducation in how to interpret ourselves, in where our emotions arise from, in how our chil...
How Proust Can Change Your Life Clip 1: Romantic Pessimism Duration: 5m 29s Clip 2: Should we spend more time locked up in arks then? Duration: 3m 31s For press photos of Alain de Botton pleaseclick here.
- Love had to be appreciated without flight into dogmatic optimism or pessimism, without constructing a philosophy of one’s fears, or a morality of one’s disappointments. Love taught the analytic mind a certain humility, the lesson that however hard it struggled to reach immobile certainties (...
Such pessimism tempers prevailing sentimentality. It provides an acknowledgement that we are inherently flawed creatures: incapable of lasting happiness, beset by troubling desires, obsessed by status, vulnerable to appalling accidents and always – slowly – dying. Anselm Kiefer, Alkahest, 2011. © ...
The emotionally intelligentappreciate the role of well-handledpessimismwithin the overall economy of a good life. Emotional intelligenceisn'tan inborn talent. It's alwaysa result of education, specificallyeducation in how to interpret ourselves, in where our emotionsarise from, in how our childhoodsin...
The emotionally intelligent appreciate the role of well-handledpessimismwithin the overall economy of a good life. Emotional intelligenceisn't an inborn talent. It's always a result of education, specificallyeducation in how to interpret ourselves, in where our emotions arise from, in how our chil...