Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.


The Art of Travel (ed. Penguin UK, 2003) - ISBN: 9780141930268

Alain de Botton Quotes

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important...

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important...

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important...

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important...