“A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.”
Alain de Botton is the bestselling philosopher redefining how we understand love, work, and meaning in the modern world. He first rose to prominence with Essays in Love, a novel-philosophy hybrid that became an international bestseller. He has since authored several bestselling works that blend literary elegance, psychological insight, and philosophical depth.
In 2008, he founded The School of Life, an organisation dedicated to developing emotional intelligence through philosophy, psychotherapy, and culture. De Botton has lectured widely, appeared in multiple television documentaries, and written for The Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, and others, consistently arguing for the power of ideas to transform how we love, work, and live.
“Alain de Botton, one of our era’s most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives.” — The Marginalian
