Quotes to Live By
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Quotes to Live By is a collection of The School of Life's best and most psychologically acute quotations — covering such large and diverse topics as relationships, regret, anxiety, work, friends, family, travel and, not least: the meaning of life. Throughout, the book features quirky and fun illustrations by Avi Ofer....
Quotes to Live By is a collection of The School of Life's best and most psychologically acute quotations — covering such large and diverse topics as relationships, regret, anxiety, work, friends, family, travel and, not least: the meaning of life. Throughout, the book features quirky and fun illustrations by Avi Ofer. It is a beautifully designed and carefully curated object that makes for an ideal gift to others, or yourself.
The School of Life offers us some of the most important lessons in life, and this book covers it all, organised by their key themes: Relationships, Self-knowledge, Sociability, Work, Calm and Leisure. Together, these themes amount to a tour around the most profound sorrows and joys of the human mind and heart. Offering comfort and consolation in a compact format, Quotes to Live By is ideally suited to our impatient, anxious and searching times.
Quotes to Live By
‘Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.’
‘The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.’
‘Insomnia is the mind’s revenge for all the thoughts we forgot to have in the day.’
Details
Measures 16,3 x 12,3 cm
Counts 192 pages
Features 25 illustrations
The School of Life x Misc Store Amsterdam
Alain de Botton founded The School of Life in 2008. His aim was to make philosophy — long seen as the inaccessible, inauthentic stuff of academies and archives — a functional aspect of modern life. The care with which ancient philosophers thought about their lives remains a valuable antidote to the generalised anxiety of our era.
The school thus posits that ideas of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics are as relevant to us today as they were in ancient Greece. Even if Epicurus never had social media burnout, understanding his thinking can lead us to a healthier relationship with , for example, our phones — and by extension, with one another.
We began stocking The School of Life’s series on work, gratitude and pleasure as a way of thinking through modern day issues. We admire their series for the capacity to stimulate reflection, and their ability to give a new perspective on age old problems. At its core, it is a set of strategies for finding meaning in the modern world.
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About The School of Life
Alain de Botton founded The School of Life in 2008. His aim was to make philosophy — long seen as the inaccessible, inauthentic stuff of academies and archives — a functional aspect of modern life. The care with which ancient philosophers thought about their lives remains a valuable antidote to the generalised anxiety of our era.
The school thus posits that ideas of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics are as relevant to us today as they were in ancient Greece. Even if Epicurus never had social media burnout, understanding his thinking can lead us to a healthier relationship with , for example, our phones — and by extension, with one another.
We began stocking The School of Life’s series on work, gratitude and pleasure as a way of thinking through modern day issues. We admire their series for the capacity to stimulate reflection, and their ability to give a new perspective on age old problems. At its core, it is a set of strategies for finding meaning in the modern world — so that we can appreciate small pleasures and the things that might go unnoticed.