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Authors: 16 in order of recurrence Show in alphabetic order
Steven Pinker (125/126)
Jiddu Krishnamurti (84/106)
Emil Cioran (42/95)
Antonio Porchia (38/114)
Steve Jobs (19/20)
Giacomo Leopardi (18/70)
Friedrich Nietzsche (16/132)
Manfred Max Neef (6/9)
William Shakespeare (5/34)
Sigmund Freud (3/37)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (2/6)
René Girard (2/37)
Bruno Cancellieri (1/2403)
Carl Menger (0/1)
Fernando Savater (0/1)
Mario Vassalle (0/51)
Authors: 16 in alphabetic order Show in order of recurrence
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (2/6)
Antonio Porchia (38/114)
Bruno Cancellieri (1/2403)
Carl Menger (0/1)
Emil Cioran (42/95)
Fernando Savater (0/1)
Friedrich Nietzsche (16/132)
Giacomo Leopardi (18/70)
Jiddu Krishnamurti (84/106)
Manfred Max Neef (6/9)
Mario Vassalle (0/51)
René Girard (2/37)
Sigmund Freud (3/37)
Steve Jobs (19/20)
Steven Pinker (125/126)
William Shakespeare (5/34)
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)
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13285Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.
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Motivations9786We will never deny that subsistence is a fundamental human need which must be satisfied through adequate income, nutrition, housing and work for all. But we will also insist that protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity and freedom are extremely fundamental human needs as well.
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Motivations9785The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity.
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Motivations12491Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.
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