He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective to play with.
Weitere Zitate von Alain de Botton
Zum Autor"Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for."
"The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning."
"Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person."
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant."
"Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough."