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Authors: 15 in order of recurrence Show in alphabetic order
Anonymous (107/293)
Karl Popper (35/91)
Albert Einstein (24/64)
Johann W. von Goethe (18/87)
Piero Scaruffi (14/15)
Socrates (7/8)
Abba Eban (6/8)
Edgar Morin (3/180)
Emma Goldman (2/2)
Michel de Montaigne (2/48)
Arturo Graf (0/14)
F. T. Altan (0/1)
Mario Vassalle (0/51)
Peter De Vries (0/2)
Authors: 15 in alphabetic order Show in order of recurrence
Abba Eban (6/8)
Albert Einstein (24/64)
Anonymous (107/293)
Arturo Graf (0/14)
Edgar Morin (3/180)
Emma Goldman (2/2)
F. T. Altan (0/1)
Johann W. von Goethe (18/87)
Karl Popper (35/91)
Mario Vassalle (0/51)
Michel de Montaigne (2/48)
Peter De Vries (0/2)
Piero Scaruffi (14/15)
Socrates (7/8)

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)
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6280EIt might be well for all of us to remember that, while differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.


Ignorance
Ignorance

6310EOur knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.


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Ignorance

3360ENothing is more terrible than ignorance in action


Ignorance
Ignorance

5008EMost books are about aspects of human knowledge. Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about.

Ignorance
Ignorance

6298ETrue ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.


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Ignorance

6286EFor it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance


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Ignorance

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