All Quotes

"Mario Botta, Paolo Crepet e Giuseppe Zois, Dove abitano le emozioni. La felicità e i luoghi in cui viviamo, Einaudi, Torino, 2007. ISBN 978-88-06-19016-3"

"Paolo Crepet, Baciami senza rete. Buone ragioni per sottrarsi alla seduzione digitale, Mondadori, Milano, 2016. ISBN 978-88-04-66881-7"

"Paolo Crepet, Cuori violenti. Viaggio nella criminalità giovanile, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1995. ISBN 88-07-17005-1"

"Paolo Crepet, Dannati e leggeri, Einaudi, Torino, 2004. ISBN 88-06-17246-8"

"Paolo Crepet, Educare oggi, Enea, Milano, 2012. ISBN 978-88-9557-291-8"

"Paolo Crepet, Elogio dell'amicizia, Einaudi, Torino, 2012. ISBN 978-88-06-21260-5"

"Paolo Crepet, Gli incontri sbagliati, Mondadori, Milano, 2005. Supplemento a Donna Moderna."

"Paolo Crepet, I figli non crescono più Einaudi, Torino, 2005. ISBN 88-06-16979-3"

"Paolo Crepet, Il caso della donna che smise di mangiare, Einaudi, Torino, 2015. ISBN 978-88-06-21262-9"

"Paolo Crepet, Il coraggio. Vivere, amare, educare, Mondadori, Milano, 2017. ISBN 978-88-04-68186-1"

"Paolo Crepet, Impara a essere felice, Einaudi, Torino, 2013. ISBN 978-88-06-21261-2"

"Paolo Crepet, Impara a essere felice, Einaudi, Torino, 2015. ISBN 978-88-06-22466-0"

"Paolo Crepet, L'autorità perduta. Il coraggio che i figli ci chiedono, Einaudi, Torino, 2012. ISBN 978-88-06-21580-4"

"Paolo Crepet, Le dimensioni del vuoto. I giovani e il suicidio. Feltrinelli, Milano, 2000. ISBN 88-07-81586-9"

"Paolo Crepet, Le malattie della disoccupazione. Le condizioni fisiche e psichiche di chi non ha lavoro, Edizioni Lavoro, Roma, 1990. ISBN 88-7910-443-8"

"Paolo Crepet, Libertà, Mondadori, Milano, 2019. ISBN 978-88-04-71872-7"

"Paolo Crepet, Naufragi. Tre storie di confine, Einaudi, Torino, 1999. ISBN 88-06-15338-2"

"Paolo Crepet, Non mi chiedere di più, Barney Narrazioni, Siena, 2014. ISBN 978-88-98693-04-7"

"Paolo Crepet, Non siamo capaci di ascoltarli. Riflessioni sull'infanzia e l'adolescenza, Einaudi, Torino, 2001. ISBN 88-06-15785-X"

"Paolo Crepet, Passione, Mondadori, Milano, 2018. ISBN 978-88-04-70533-8"

"Paolo Crepet, Sfamiglia. Vademecum per un genitore che non si vuole rassegnare, Einaudi, Torino, 2009. ISBN 978-88-06-19842-8"

"Paolo Crepet, Solitudini. Memorie di assenze, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1997. ISBN 88-07-17022-1"

"Paolo Crepet, Sull'amore. Innamoramento, gelosia, eros, abbandono. Il coraggio dei sentimenti, Einaudi, Torino, 2010. ISBN 978-88-06-20300-9"

"Paolo Crepet, Voi, noi. Sull'indifferenza di giovani e adulti, Einaudi, Torino, 2003. ISBN 978-88-06-1666-94"

"Paolo Crepet, Francesco Florenzano, Il rifiuto di vivere. Anatomia del suicidio, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1989. ISBN 88-359-3307-2"

"[In the case of the Egyptian war chariot,] the timbers in question were not of Egyptian origin but ‗came from the north‘. […] The timbers used were holm-oak for the axle and the spokes, elm for the pole, ash for the felloes, the chassis and the dashboard, hornbeam for the yoke and birch bark for wrapping and for joining the spokes with the felloes and the hub […] The wooden material of the Egyptian chariots came from the Caucasus."

"You can do whatever you want as you study microbes."

"Paolo Crepet, La gioia di educare, Einaudi, Torino, 2008. ISBN 978-88-06-19497-0"

"We sell them weapons, because the disease of power has spread everywhere, and they throw away every resource, even human lives, to wage and win wars, wars of misery."

"Sometimes you lose because you didn't choose the right field of trial."

"An adult man cannot be reduced to an active and productive man."

"(Commenting on the 1904 law on mental hospitals, inspired by the principles of the anthropological-positive school and Cesare Lombroso) Prison and Psychiatric hospital are consistently two ways of defending against criminals and the insane, particularly against their dangerousness. The insane are not responsible for their actions (and therefore not punishable), but for this very reason their wishes cannot be respected when it comes to committing them to an asylum: the will of the community must prevail over that of the individual. Insanity, after all, could not be cured, only restrained and contained: this was the task of psychiatry. (Il manicomio del 1904, p. 50)"

"Madness is an integral part of culture, and the madman is a citizen of society, even when he is confined to an asylum. It is not possible to understand madness by dealing only with madness. On the other hand, one cannot have a complete picture of a society without the chapter on its madness. (Intorno alla follia, p. 62)"

"Even for history there is a “principle of indeterminacy” and here too, in defining some facts, one must give up describing others. The impression arises that many accounts of a historical period are possible depending on what one chooses and consequently eliminates. And it is impossible to tell a story without making choices. (Intorno alla follia, p. 63)"

"The name Gustave Le Bon recalls that of Gabriel Tarde, who in 1890 published ‘'The Laws of Imitation’' and argued that the psychological phenomenon of imitation can explain all forms of social bonding and all the secrets of social life. With Tarde, the sociological dispute was already alive. It was this author, in contrast to the dominant sociologist of the time, Émile Durkheim, who claimed that the era of non-psychological sociology (that of Durkheim, in fact) was over. If Auguste Comte is the founder of sociology, Tarde deserves credit for founding social psychology. (Intorno alla follia, p. 65)"

"While scientific discoveries, however great, may not have immediate repercussions on lifestyle and daily life, it is precisely technology that brings about immediate practical upheavals, usually considered positive. Science always changes ideas (of science itself or of culture), while technology has little impact on them and mostly only indirectly through the subversion of ordinary processes of existence. (Intorno alla follia, p. 70)"

"Frank Wedekind, actor and playwright, focuses his performances on sex and its perversions with the aim of exposing the hypocritical respectability of the bourgeoisie of the time. He proposes the morality of erotic impulse as an alternative to bourgeois morality. (Intorno alla follia, p. 79)"

"In 1950-51, Maxwell Jones invented, as an alternative to psychiatric hospitals, small therapeutic communities made up of patients and psychiatric and social workers, managed on the basis of collective participation and dynamics that were intended to bring out the abilities and qualities of each individual. The model of the extended family or village will go beyond psychiatry to apply to the problems of marginalization (from prisoners to drug addicts, the disabled, and the elderly). (La società o la fabbrica della follia, p. 131)"

"Falsification is a term that has entered everyday language. It was introduced by Karl Popper. Every scientific result must be questionable and, therefore, imperfect, the starting point for new experiments for progressive, but never definitive, perfection. Scientific research is the never-ending story of corrections to previously obtained data, a story that has the limits of Tantalus. The definitive is dogmatism; it can be asserted but not proven. The great system of Bacon and Galileo has been decisively destroyed, precisely in the method that founded it. (Requiem per la verità, p. 333-334)"

"Paul Feyerabend described science as a place of anarchy based not on logical-rational method but on protocols, the tools of the trade. Science is, therefore, a ‘relative’ discipline, capable of affirming truth only in relation to data conventionally compared: a truth-error. (Requiem per la verità, p. 334)"

"Sexuality is also dying. Once upon a time, the penis had great significance and could be an ideological foundation. Today, it is an appendage of the body without qualities. No plans are made for the penis anymore. It is an intriguing and dangerous organ. It can generate in an overpopulated world. Better the power of an engine. Impotence has never been as high as in the contemporary world. You are male because of your motorcycle, your tattoo, your abdominal muscles, and your beard; the penis has nothing to do with it. (Requiem per la verità, p. 335)"

"Vittorino Andreoli, I miei matti, Rizzoli, 2004."

"Vittorino Andreoli, L'uomo di vetro, Rizzoli, 2008."

"Vittorino Andreoli, Lettera a un adolescente, Rizzoli, 2004."

"Vittorino Andreoli, Preti di carta. Storie di santi ed eretici, asceti e libertini, esorcisti e guaritori, Piemme, 2010."

"Vittorino Andreoli, Preti. Viaggio fra gli uomini del sacro, Piemme, 2010. ISBN 9788856615197"

"Vittorino Andreoli, Tra un'ora, la follia, Rizzoli, 1999."

"Vittorino Andreoli, Un secolo di follia, Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, Milano, 1998. ISBN 88-17-11838-9"

"When I am working, I am a different person. I don’t care if you are my friend or not, if you aren’t good, I won’t put you in that movie."

"I have always faced challenges with the positive mindset that I would always succeed. I have always told myself that there is no problem that cannot be circumvented."