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Authors: 22 in order of recurrence Show in alphabetic order
Sam Harris (108/113)
Anonymous (107/293)
Daniel Dennett (60/70)
Albert Einstein (24/64)
Yuval Noah Harari (19/25)
Bertrand Russell (18/38)
Margaret Mead (15/17)
Voltaire (15/73)
Jacques Monod (13/30)
Herbert Spencer (11/11)
Winston Churchill (10/17)
Edgar Morin (3/180)
Paul Valéry (3/23)
Kahlil Gibran (2/9)
René Girard (2/37)
Bruno Cancellieri (1/2403)
David Hume (0/46)
Gilles Deleuze (0/33)
Giordano Bruno (0/34)
Hermann Broch (0/1)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (0/17)
Margherita Hack (0/8)
Authors: 22 in alphabetic order Show in order of recurrence
Albert Einstein (24/64)
Anonymous (107/293)
Bertrand Russell (18/38)
Bruno Cancellieri (1/2403)
Daniel Dennett (60/70)
David Hume (0/46)
Edgar Morin (3/180)
Gilles Deleuze (0/33)
Giordano Bruno (0/34)
Herbert Spencer (11/11)
Hermann Broch (0/1)
Jacques Monod (13/30)
Kahlil Gibran (2/9)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (0/17)
Margaret Mead (15/17)
Margherita Hack (0/8)
Paul Valéry (3/23)
René Girard (2/37)
Sam Harris (108/113)
Voltaire (15/73)
Winston Churchill (10/17)
Yuval Noah Harari (19/25)

Subjects: 452 in order of recurrence Show in alphabetic order
Miscellaneous (552/2141)
Religion (138/415)
Mind (63/244)
Knowledge (59/361)
Love (42/239)
Life (33/139)
Truth (32/147)
Humour (31/74)
Marriage (29/99)
Psychology (29/231)
Politics (28/160)
Attention (27/30)
Changing (26/96)
Freedom (26/136)
Education (23/35)
Thinking (23/114)
God (22/88)
Mankind (22/82)
Work (19/36)
Death (17/61)
Stupidity (17/78)
Happiness (16/154)
Science (16/49)
Fear (15/46)
Philosophy (15/126)
Feelings (14/77)
Hope (14/35)
Human nature (14/189)
Morality (14/35)
Success (14/31)
Talking (14/31)
Madness (13/62)
Wisdom (13/93)
Conformism (12/46)
Responsibility (12/25)
Understanding (12/49)
War (12/22)
Writing (12/43)
Art (11/57)
History (11/28)
Intelligence (11/79)
Language (11/39)
Management (11/14)
Time (11/30)
Faith (10/17)
Future (10/24)
Human relations (10/333)
Perception (10/22)
Ageing (9/24)
Consciousness (9/30)
Ethics (9/84)
Judging (9/65)
Sex (9/49)
Solitude (9/127)
Violence (9/18)
Beauty (8/54)
Evolution (8/14)
Human values (8/25)
Ignorance (8/20)
Jokes (8/16)
Reading (8/19)
Women (8/81)
Democracy (7/11)
Failure (7/9)
Government (7/12)
Laughing (7/13)
Nature (7/24)
Problems and solutions (7/24)
Progress (7/22)
Reason (7/61)
Atheism (6/15)
Books (6/20)
Economy (6/13)
Friendship (6/34)
Human differences (6/58)
Imagination (6/27)
Information technology (6/11)
Law (6/18)
Learning (6/49)
Life and Death (6/25)
Music (6/22)
Society (6/64)
Beliefs (5/16)
Business (5/8)
Civilization (5/8)
Illusion (5/26)
Reality (5/18)
Teaching (5/15)
Technology (5/12)
Theory (5/10)
Will (5/41)
Action (4/5)
Communication (4/32)
Computer (4/7)
Creativity (4/22)
Crime (4/5)
Criticism (4/18)
Culture (4/24)
Doubting (4/14)
Dreaming (4/11)
Drinking (4/4)
Generosity (4/15)
Genius (4/21)
Goals (4/8)
Information (4/18)
Invention (4/5)
Listening (4/5)
Logics (4/14)
Lying (4/46)
Man & Animals (4/5)
Mediocrity (4/29)
Men and Women (4/20)
Money (4/35)
Motivations (4/127)
Peace (4/9)
Perfection (4/6)
Poetry (4/23)
Poverty (4/10)
Rationality (4/11)
Self-knowledge (4/10)
Universe (4/7)
Ability (3/8)
Anger (3/8)
Animals (3/5)
Appreciation (3/4)
Authority (3/4)
Boredom (3/8)
Children (3/16)
Choice (3/26)
Communism (3/4)
Cynism (3/5)
Ecology (3/11)
Equality (3/8)
Evil (3/20)
Experience (3/8)
Food (3/5)
Growing (3/4)
Honour (3/5)
Idealism (3/4)
Ideas (3/19)
Justice (3/21)
Leadership (3/19)
Memory (3/20)
Organization (3/6)
Personality (3/14)
Playing (3/5)
Possession (3/7)
Power (3/14)
Questions (3/10)
Quotations (3/3)
Reason and Feeling (3/14)
Revolutions (3/9)
Richness (3/11)
Self-control (3/8)
Simplicity (3/7)
Suicide (3/30)
Taste (3/7)
Virtue (3/16)
Adaptation (2/4)
Ambition (2/7)
Aphorisms (2/25)
Burocracy (2/3)
Censorship (2/4)
Chance (2/23)
Competition (2/9)
Conversation (2/10)
Courage (2/19)
Deception (2/6)
Diplomacy (2/3)
Emotions (2/8)
Error (2/18)
Facts (2/4)
Family (2/7)
Fault (2/5)
Fighting (2/2)
Fun (2/3)
Glory (2/3)
Good and Evil (2/19)
Gossip (2/3)
Honesty (2/8)
Hospitality (2/2)
Humility (2/9)
Ideals (2/3)
Idleness (2/5)
Indifference (2/8)
Innovation (2/2)
Internet (2/6)
Journalism (2/6)
Luck (2/9)
Neutrality (2/2)
Parents (2/6)
Passion (2/5)
Pleasure (2/19)
Prejudice (2/30)
Principles (2/3)
Ridicule (2/5)
Sadness (2/4)
School (2/6)
Shame (2/7)
Suffering (2/8)
Tact (2/3)
Talent (2/4)
Television (2/13)
Tolerance (2/9)
Unconscious (2/43)
Vanity (2/8)
Admiration (1/4)
Advertising (1/2)
Advicing (1/6)
Aiming (1/1)
America (1/1)
Anarchy (1/3)
Apology (1/1)
Architecture (1/3)
Arguing (1/3)
Behaviour (1/2)
Bigotry (1/1)
Capitalism (1/2)
Catastrophe (1/1)
Celebrity (1/1)
Character (1/3)
Charity (1/3)
Commitment (1/1)
Conviction (1/1)
Cooking (1/1)
Cooperation (1/1)
Cowardice (1/3)
Crying (1/3)
Desire (1/4)
Desperation (1/1)
Destiny (1/6)
Destruction (1/1)
Devil (1/3)
Discipline (1/2)
Disobedience (1/6)
Duty (1/9)
Effectiveness (1/1)
Efficiency (1/2)
Egotism (1/11)
Envy (1/13)
Eternity (1/1)
Excellence (1/2)
Faithfulness (1/7)
Faking (1/5)
Fantasy (1/3)
Fashion (1/6)
Feminism (1/1)
Fools (1/1)
Forgiving (1/6)
Friendliness (1/2)
Generations (1/1)
Good breeding (1/1)
Gratitude (1/6)
Habit (1/7)
Harm (1/1)
Health (1/2)
Hell (1/6)
Help (1/2)
Hierarchy (1/7)
Human types (1/2)
Ideologies (1/2)
Illness (1/5)
Immortality (1/2)
Indignation (1/1)
Individualism (1/1)
Innocence (1/2)
Intellectuals (1/7)
Interactions (1/38)
Joy (1/3)
Kindness (1/3)
Kissing (1/2)
Laziness (1/4)
Literature (1/14)
Loss (1/1)
Marketing (1/1)
Martyrdom (1/4)
Mathematics (1/5)
Maxims (1/2)
Medicine (1/7)
Melancholy (1/1)
Memories (1/4)
Middle Ages (1/1)
Militarism (1/1)
Misanthropy (1/14)
Moralism (1/4)
Mysticism (1/2)
Nations (1/1)
Normality (1/2)
Obedience (1/72)
Objectivity (1/2)
Opinions (1/4)
Optimism (1/7)
Pain (1/10)
Past (1/5)
Patience (1/5)
People (1/11)
Perfectionism (1/2)
Pessimism (1/5)
Photography (1/3)
Presumption (1/7)
Procreation (1/1)
Psychiatry (1/3)
Public property (1/1)
Punishment (1/2)
Racism (1/2)
Reputation (1/2)
Rich and Poor (1/3)
Risk (1/1)
Sacrifice (1/1)
Safety (1/1)
Secrets (1/7)
Self-esteem (1/9)
Sense (1/1)
Sharing (1/4)
Silence (1/4)
Sincerity (1/7)
Sleep (1/2)
Smiling (1/1)
Smoking (1/2)
Social identity (1/59)
Sorrow (1/2)
Spirit (1/7)
Sport (1/5)
Statistics (1/1)
Synthesis (1/1)
Temptation (1/6)
Traditions (1/4)
Travelling (1/4)
Usefulness (1/3)
Watching (1/1)
Welfare (1/1)
World (1/5)
World improvement (1/2)
Youth (1/6)
Adultery (0/6)
Aesthetics (0/3)
Apparence (0/8)
Approval (0/2)
Beginning (0/1)
Bible (0/1)
Biographies (0/1)
Blame (0/1)
Bourgeoisie (0/1)
Brothers (0/1)
Calmness (0/1)
Calumny (0/2)
Career (0/3)
Chastity (0/2)
Cheating (0/1)
Cinema (0/2)
Clothing (0/1)
Common sense (0/2)
Confidence (0/4)
Contempt (0/1)
Coyness (0/3)
Critics (0/1)
Dignity (0/1)
Drugs (0/1)
Eating (0/2)
Elegance (0/1)
Empathy (0/0)
End of the world (0/2)
Enemies (0/6)
English people (0/1)
Enthusiasm (0/1)
Escape (0/1)
Etiquette (0/1)
Euthanasia (0/1)
Fame (0/5)
Fascination (0/2)
Faults (0/3)
Finance (0/1)
Forgetting (0/1)
Games (0/1)
Greed (0/1)
Hatred (0/12)
Heroism (0/2)
Human quality (0/3)
Hunger (0/6)
Hypocrisy (0/3)
Improvement (0/1)
Instinct (0/1)
Introversion (0/4)
Intuition (0/1)
Italians (0/5)
Italy (0/3)
Jealousy (0/1)
Lawyers (0/1)
Litigation (0/1)
Luxury (0/1)
Manners (0/1)
Market (0/2)
Mass (0/34)
Misfortune (0/4)
Misogyny (0/1)
Naivety (0/2)
Narcissism (0/2)
Nationalism (0/1)
Neighbors (0/1)
Obscurantism (0/1)
Occultism (0/1)
Offending (0/2)
Opportunism (0/1)
Order (0/2)
Originality (0/1)
Overreaching (0/1)
Police (0/2)
Prayer (0/1)
Pride (0/5)
Probability (0/1)
Prostitution (0/1)
Providence (0/1)
Psychotherapists (0/7)
Purity (0/2)
Quitting (0/1)
Relatives (0/1)
Relativism (0/1)
Repenting (0/1)
Research (0/1)
Respect (0/1)
Rights (0/1)
Roles (0/8)
Self-improvement (0/9)
Sensations (0/2)
Seriosity (0/1)
Shyness (0/2)
Social ladder (0/1)
Socializing (0/7)
Sociology (0/5)
Solidarity (0/1)
Speed (0/1)
Spontaneity (0/2)
Style (0/1)
Sublime (0/1)
Superficiality (0/3)
Superstition (0/1)
Taxes (0/1)
Theater (0/3)
To be organized (0/164)
Tragedy (0/1)
Triviality (0/1)
Ugliness (0/4)
Vengeance (0/3)
Verbosity (0/5)
Vice (0/2)
Virginity (0/1)
Visions (0/1)
Weakness (0/3)
Wickedness (0/2)
Witches (0/1)
Worrying (0/1)
Worthiness (0/1)
Subjects: 452 in alphabetic order Show in order of recurrence
Ability (3/8)
Action (4/5)
Adaptation (2/4)
Admiration (1/4)
Adultery (0/6)
Advertising (1/2)
Advicing (1/6)
Aesthetics (0/3)
Ageing (9/24)
Aiming (1/1)
Ambition (2/7)
America (1/1)
Anarchy (1/3)
Anger (3/8)
Animals (3/5)
Aphorisms (2/25)
Apology (1/1)
Apparence (0/8)
Appreciation (3/4)
Approval (0/2)
Architecture (1/3)
Arguing (1/3)
Art (11/57)
Atheism (6/15)
Attention (27/30)
Authority (3/4)
Beauty (8/54)
Beginning (0/1)
Behaviour (1/2)
Beliefs (5/16)
Bible (0/1)
Bigotry (1/1)
Biographies (0/1)
Blame (0/1)
Books (6/20)
Boredom (3/8)
Bourgeoisie (0/1)
Brothers (0/1)
Burocracy (2/3)
Business (5/8)
Calmness (0/1)
Calumny (0/2)
Capitalism (1/2)
Career (0/3)
Catastrophe (1/1)
Celebrity (1/1)
Censorship (2/4)
Chance (2/23)
Changing (26/96)
Character (1/3)
Charity (1/3)
Chastity (0/2)
Cheating (0/1)
Children (3/16)
Choice (3/26)
Cinema (0/2)
Civilization (5/8)
Clothing (0/1)
Commitment (1/1)
Common sense (0/2)
Communication (4/32)
Communism (3/4)
Competition (2/9)
Computer (4/7)
Confidence (0/4)
Conformism (12/46)
Consciousness (9/30)
Contempt (0/1)
Conversation (2/10)
Conviction (1/1)
Cooking (1/1)
Cooperation (1/1)
Courage (2/19)
Cowardice (1/3)
Coyness (0/3)
Creativity (4/22)
Crime (4/5)
Criticism (4/18)
Critics (0/1)
Crying (1/3)
Culture (4/24)
Cynism (3/5)
Death (17/61)
Deception (2/6)
Democracy (7/11)
Desire (1/4)
Desperation (1/1)
Destiny (1/6)
Destruction (1/1)
Devil (1/3)
Dignity (0/1)
Diplomacy (2/3)
Discipline (1/2)
Disobedience (1/6)
Doubting (4/14)
Dreaming (4/11)
Drinking (4/4)
Drugs (0/1)
Duty (1/9)
Eating (0/2)
Ecology (3/11)
Economy (6/13)
Education (23/35)
Effectiveness (1/1)
Efficiency (1/2)
Egotism (1/11)
Elegance (0/1)
Emotions (2/8)
Empathy (0/0)
End of the world (0/2)
Enemies (0/6)
English people (0/1)
Enthusiasm (0/1)
Envy (1/13)
Equality (3/8)
Error (2/18)
Escape (0/1)
Eternity (1/1)
Ethics (9/84)
Etiquette (0/1)
Euthanasia (0/1)
Evil (3/20)
Evolution (8/14)
Excellence (1/2)
Experience (3/8)
Facts (2/4)
Failure (7/9)
Faith (10/17)
Faithfulness (1/7)
Faking (1/5)
Fame (0/5)
Family (2/7)
Fantasy (1/3)
Fascination (0/2)
Fashion (1/6)
Fault (2/5)
Faults (0/3)
Fear (15/46)
Feelings (14/77)
Feminism (1/1)
Fighting (2/2)
Finance (0/1)
Food (3/5)
Fools (1/1)
Forgetting (0/1)
Forgiving (1/6)
Freedom (26/136)
Friendliness (1/2)
Friendship (6/34)
Fun (2/3)
Future (10/24)
Games (0/1)
Generations (1/1)
Generosity (4/15)
Genius (4/21)
Glory (2/3)
Goals (4/8)
God (22/88)
Good and Evil (2/19)
Good breeding (1/1)
Gossip (2/3)
Government (7/12)
Gratitude (1/6)
Greed (0/1)
Growing (3/4)
Habit (1/7)
Happiness (16/154)
Harm (1/1)
Hatred (0/12)
Health (1/2)
Hell (1/6)
Help (1/2)
Heroism (0/2)
Hierarchy (1/7)
History (11/28)
Honesty (2/8)
Honour (3/5)
Hope (14/35)
Hospitality (2/2)
Human differences (6/58)
Human nature (14/189)
Human quality (0/3)
Human relations (10/333)
Human types (1/2)
Human values (8/25)
Humility (2/9)
Humour (31/74)
Hunger (0/6)
Hypocrisy (0/3)
Idealism (3/4)
Ideals (2/3)
Ideas (3/19)
Ideologies (1/2)
Idleness (2/5)
Ignorance (8/20)
Illness (1/5)
Illusion (5/26)
Imagination (6/27)
Immortality (1/2)
Improvement (0/1)
Indifference (2/8)
Indignation (1/1)
Individualism (1/1)
Information (4/18)
Information technology (6/11)
Innocence (1/2)
Innovation (2/2)
Instinct (0/1)
Intellectuals (1/7)
Intelligence (11/79)
Interactions (1/38)
Internet (2/6)
Introversion (0/4)
Intuition (0/1)
Invention (4/5)
Italians (0/5)
Italy (0/3)
Jealousy (0/1)
Jokes (8/16)
Journalism (2/6)
Joy (1/3)
Judging (9/65)
Justice (3/21)
Kindness (1/3)
Kissing (1/2)
Knowledge (59/361)
Language (11/39)
Laughing (7/13)
Law (6/18)
Lawyers (0/1)
Laziness (1/4)
Leadership (3/19)
Learning (6/49)
Life (33/139)
Life and Death (6/25)
Listening (4/5)
Literature (1/14)
Litigation (0/1)
Logics (4/14)
Loss (1/1)
Love (42/239)
Luck (2/9)
Luxury (0/1)
Lying (4/46)
Madness (13/62)
Man & Animals (4/5)
Management (11/14)
Mankind (22/82)
Manners (0/1)
Market (0/2)
Marketing (1/1)
Marriage (29/99)
Martyrdom (1/4)
Mass (0/34)
Mathematics (1/5)
Maxims (1/2)
Medicine (1/7)
Mediocrity (4/29)
Melancholy (1/1)
Memories (1/4)
Memory (3/20)
Men and Women (4/20)
Middle Ages (1/1)
Militarism (1/1)
Mind (63/244)
Misanthropy (1/14)
Miscellaneous (552/2141)
Misfortune (0/4)
Misogyny (0/1)
Money (4/35)
Moralism (1/4)
Morality (14/35)
Motivations (4/127)
Music (6/22)
Mysticism (1/2)
Naivety (0/2)
Narcissism (0/2)
Nationalism (0/1)
Nations (1/1)
Nature (7/24)
Neighbors (0/1)
Neutrality (2/2)
Normality (1/2)
Obedience (1/72)
Objectivity (1/2)
Obscurantism (0/1)
Occultism (0/1)
Offending (0/2)
Opinions (1/4)
Opportunism (0/1)
Optimism (1/7)
Order (0/2)
Organization (3/6)
Originality (0/1)
Overreaching (0/1)
Pain (1/10)
Parents (2/6)
Passion (2/5)
Past (1/5)
Patience (1/5)
Peace (4/9)
People (1/11)
Perception (10/22)
Perfection (4/6)
Perfectionism (1/2)
Personality (3/14)
Pessimism (1/5)
Philosophy (15/126)
Photography (1/3)
Playing (3/5)
Pleasure (2/19)
Poetry (4/23)
Police (0/2)
Politics (28/160)
Possession (3/7)
Poverty (4/10)
Power (3/14)
Prayer (0/1)
Prejudice (2/30)
Presumption (1/7)
Pride (0/5)
Principles (2/3)
Probability (0/1)
Problems and solutions (7/24)
Procreation (1/1)
Progress (7/22)
Prostitution (0/1)
Providence (0/1)
Psychiatry (1/3)
Psychology (29/231)
Psychotherapists (0/7)
Public property (1/1)
Punishment (1/2)
Purity (0/2)
Questions (3/10)
Quitting (0/1)
Quotations (3/3)
Racism (1/2)
Rationality (4/11)
Reading (8/19)
Reality (5/18)
Reason (7/61)
Reason and Feeling (3/14)
Relatives (0/1)
Relativism (0/1)
Religion (138/415)
Repenting (0/1)
Reputation (1/2)
Research (0/1)
Respect (0/1)
Responsibility (12/25)
Revolutions (3/9)
Rich and Poor (1/3)
Richness (3/11)
Ridicule (2/5)
Rights (0/1)
Risk (1/1)
Roles (0/8)
Sacrifice (1/1)
Sadness (2/4)
Safety (1/1)
School (2/6)
Science (16/49)
Secrets (1/7)
Self-control (3/8)
Self-esteem (1/9)
Self-improvement (0/9)
Self-knowledge (4/10)
Sensations (0/2)
Sense (1/1)
Seriosity (0/1)
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13077EThe problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.




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8468EJust as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.




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8496EHuman well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.




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2727EI do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority.




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8509EWhat would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?




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8213EIt is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.




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8513ETo treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.




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7974EEthical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.


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8462EI am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.




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