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Authors: 13 in order of recurrence Show in alphabetic order
Steven Pinker (125/126)
Emil Cioran (42/95)
Antonio Porchia (38/114)
Oscar Wilde (32/172)
Johann W. von Goethe (18/87)
Voltaire (15/73)
Carl Gustav Jung (4/31)
René Girard (2/37)
Bruno Cancellieri (1/2403)
Stendhal (1/6)
Hermann Hesse (0/35)
Michael Rumpf (0/1)
Paolo Giordano (0/1)
Authors: 13 in alphabetic order Show in order of recurrence
Antonio Porchia (38/114)
Bruno Cancellieri (1/2403)
Carl Gustav Jung (4/31)
Emil Cioran (42/95)
Hermann Hesse (0/35)
Johann W. von Goethe (18/87)
Michael Rumpf (0/1)
Oscar Wilde (32/172)
Paolo Giordano (0/1)
René Girard (2/37)
Stendhal (1/6)
Steven Pinker (125/126)
Voltaire (15/73)

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)
Sex (9/49)
Shame (2/7)
Sharing (1/4)
Shyness (0/2)
Silence (1/4)
Simplicity (3/7)
Sincerity (1/7)
Sleep (1/2)
Smiling (1/1)
Smoking (1/2)
Social identity (1/59)
Social ladder (0/1)
Socializing (0/7)
Society (6/64)
Sociology (0/5)
Solidarity (0/1)
Solitude (9/127)
Sorrow (1/2)
Speed (0/1)
Spirit (1/7)
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As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.


Human differences
Human differences
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.


Human differences
Human differences
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In no one did I find who I should be like. And I stayed like that: like no one.


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Human differences
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No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.


Human differences
Human differences
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But among many professional women the existence of sex differences is still a source of discomfort. As one colleague said to me, "Look, I know that males and females are not identical. I see it in my kids, I see it in myself, I know about the research. I can't explain it, but when I read claims of sex differences, steam comes out of my ears."


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Human differences
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People are not clones in a monoculture, so what satisfies one will frustrate another, and the only way they can end up equal is if they are treated unequally.


Human differences
Human differences
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