阿蘭·德波頓(Alain de Botton),英國(guó)作家,1969年出生于瑞士蘇黎世,畢業(yè)于英國(guó)劍橋大學(xué)。著有小說(shuō)《愛(ài)情筆記》、《愛(ài)上浪漫》、《親吻與訴說(shuō)》及散文作品《擁抱逝水年華》、《哲學(xué)的慰藉》、《旅行的藝術(shù)》、《身份的焦慮》等。
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.