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If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

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I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and ro...more

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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believ...more

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The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names;...more

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Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confiden...more

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It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an i...more

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He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.

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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

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I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of...more

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Travel is a lot like love.

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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

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It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.