“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.”
— Alain de Botton
Simplified Meaning:
We can only truly enjoy things like beautiful art or material items if our basic emotional and psychological needs, such as feeling understood, loved, able to express ourselves, and respected, are already met.
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