Alain de Botton’s quote “We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties” is a powerful lesson on struggle, growth, ...

Over the years, Alain de Botton has published 11 nonfiction books that dispense accessible philosophies and insights that can be easily applied to modern life. From “How Proust Can Change Your Life” ...

This sophisticated gazebo of a book is the latest dispatch from the Swiss-born, London-based author of the influential handbook How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (1997). Promising to teach ...

Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project - a joyful, democratically-minded concept to share quality architecture in the UK - was borne out of personal crisis. The Swiss-born philosopher and ...

Philosopher Alain de Botton says it’s time for those who believe in religion and those who don’t to stop denigrating each other and find common ground on art, community and morality. Alain De Botton ...

One of the best books I have ever read, fiction or non-fiction, is Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Penguin, 2009). Brilliantly insightful, gorgeously written, and laugh-out-loud ...

Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure ...

In posting this angry message, Mr. de Botton joined the novelist Alice Hoffman in the unhappy ranks of authors who have lately given into the temptation of lashing out at critics publicly over a bad ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Alain De Botton is a Founder and Chair for the School of Life with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 Speech as an Author. The year with ...

Editor’s Note: Alain de Botton is a writer, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur. His most recent book is called “The News: A User’s Manual”, a study of the effects of the news on modern ...

I happened to read Alain de Botton's latest book, "Religion for Atheists," in the same week that the burning of Qurans by American forces in Afghanistan led to multiple deaths. It was also the week ...

‘The baby has been thrown out with the bathwater. That’s the gist of British writer Alain de Botton’s latest book, “Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion” (Pantheon, ...