I tell my children what I think myself: That relig... -Alain de Botton

I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated.

Alain de Botton , Writer
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Alain de Botton is a Swiss-born British writer and philosopher. He has authored numerous books that explore various aspects of human life, including love, work, and the pursuit of happiness. De Botton's insightful and accessible approach to philosophy and self-help has made him a popular and influential figure in contemporary literature.

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I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right....
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There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt pe...
The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art for...
On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad dependin...
A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all t...
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful....
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas....
The person who is truly best suited to us is not the person who shares our tastes, but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently...

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A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion....
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were br...
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, hel...
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know....
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma....
You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway....
The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, i...
As a child, the conversations that I liked to have with my friends - or with anyone, for that matter - were always about religion....
I have no message of hate. I do not attack any religion. I just preach Jesus....
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy....