Alain De Botton Quotes

What Should Worry Us Is Not The Number Of People Who Oppose Us, But How Good Their Reasons Are For Doing So. We Should Therefore Divert Our Attention Away From The Presence Of Unpopularity To The Explanations For It. It May Be Frightening To Hear That A High Proportion Of A Community Holds Us To Be Wrong, But Before Abandoning Our Position, We Should Consider The Method By Which Their Conclusions Have Been Reached. It Is The Soundness Of Their Method Of Thinking That Should Determine The Weight We Give To Their Disapproval. We Seem Afflicted By The Opposite Tendency: To Listen To Everyone, To Be Upset By Every Unkind Word And Sarcastic Observation. We Fail To Ask Ourselves The Cardinal And Most Consoling Question: On What Basis Has This Dark Censure Been Made? We Treat With Equal Seriousness The Objections Of The Critic Who Has Thought Rigorously And Honestly And Those Of The Critic Who Has Acted Out Of Misanthropy And Envy.

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