Alain De Botton Quotes
The Defenders Of Feeling-based Marriage Venerate Emotions For Their Authenticity Only Because They Avoid Looking Closely At What Actually Floats Through Most People's Emotional Kaleidoscopes, All The Contradictory, Sentimental, And Hormonal Forces That Pull Us In A Hundred Often Crazed And Inconclusive Directions.
We Could Not Be Fulfilled If We Weren't Inauthentic Some Of The Time - Inauthentic, That Is, In Relation To Such Things As Our Passing Desires To Throttle Our Children, Poison Our Spouse, Or End Our Marriage Over A Dispute About Changing A Lightbulb. A Degree Of Repression Is Necessary For Both The Mental Health Of Our Species And The Adequate Functioning Of A Decently Ordered Society. We Are Chaotic Chemical Propositions. We Should Feel Grateful For, And Protected By, The Knowledge That Our External Circumstances Are Often Out Of Line With What We Feel; It Is A Sign That We Are Probably On The Right Course.
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