Philosophy
Anthem
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Ayn Rand
Anthem is a dystopic science fiction story taking place at some unspecified future date. Mankind has entered another dark age as a result of…
Confessions (Outler translation)
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written betwee…
Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1
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Karl Marx
Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his …
Politics
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Aristotle
The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle exp…
The Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right)
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Arthur Schopenhauer
The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosop…
Laws
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Plato
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…
The Way of Peace
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James Allen
The Way of Peace is your guide to the power of meditation; self and truth; the acquirement of spiritual power; the realization of selfless l…
All of Grace
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Charles H. Spurgeon
HE WHO SPOKE and wrote this message will be greatly disappointed if it does not lead many to the Lord Jesus. It is sent forth in childlike d…
The Critique of Pure Reason
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Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…
Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei (Tao Teh King)
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Laozi 老子 and Lao Tzu
The classic of the Way and of High Virtue is the Tao Teh Ching. Its author is generally held as a contemporary of Confucius, Lao Tzu, or Lao…
Thoughts Are Things
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Prentice Mulford
Thoughts are Things, authored by Prentice Mulford, is one of the earliest books espousing New Thought teaching. This book contains informati…
Fables de La Fontaine, livre 01
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Jean de la Fontaine
Voici le premier des douze livres des Fables de La Fontaine. Celles-ci datent du XVIIe siècle et ont été enregistr&eacu…
Above Life's Turmoil
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James Allen
The turmoil of the world we cannot avoid, but the disturbances of mind we can overcome. The duties and difficulties of life claim our attent…
Bhagavad Gita
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Unknowntranslated Bysir Edwin Arnold and Translated Bysir Edwin Arnold
The content of the text is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start …
The Human Machine
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Arnold Bennett
Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. A…
Nature
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism i…
Apologie de Socrate
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Plato
« Je ne sais, Athéniens, quelle impression mes accusateurs ont faite sur vous. Pour moi, en les entendant, peu s’en est fallu q…
Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing
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Arnold Bennett
Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, …
The Dhammapada
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Unknowntranslated Byf. Max Müller and Translated Byf. Max Müller
The Dhammapada is is a Buddhist scripture, containing 423 verses in 26 categories. According to tradition, these are verses spoken by the Bu…