Alain De Botton, The News: A User's Manual Quotes

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.