The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.


How Proust Can Change Your Life (ed. Pan Macmillan, 2012) - ISBN: 9781447222194

Alain de Botton Quotes

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are...

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are...

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are...

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are...