Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists
On Being with Krista Tippett
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What You Don't Need to Teach You Wisdom
The idea that we are rational creatures, or could become rational creatures, living in a rationally run world was really a fundamental assumption. And i think it's kind of cruel to deny this aspect. The fascinating starting point of religions, all religions, is they start from the idea that we don't know how to live. And so that's why they need to teach us wisdom. I think it's simply too mature. It's too reasonable. We're all a little bit crazier than that.
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