Philosophy
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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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…
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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The Dhammapada is is a Buddhist scripture, containing 423 verses in 26 categories. According to tradition, these are verses spoken by the Bu…
What I Believe
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Leo Tolstoy
"The inner working of my soul, which I wish to speak of here, was not the result of a methodical investigation of doctrinal theology, o…
Totem and Taboo
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Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under…
The Symposium
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Plato
The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with t…
The Social Contract
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…
The Nicomachean Ethics
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Aristotle
The work consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes said to be from his lectures at the Lyce…
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
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Immanuel Kant
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, also known as The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Foundations of the Meta…
The Kybalion
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The Three Initiates
The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously b…
The Kingdom of God is within you
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Leo Tolstoy
The title of the book comes from Luke 17:21. It is a non-fiction work of the famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy. He wrote it after many years…
The Twilight of the Idols
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my tim…
Leviathan (Books I and II)
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Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…
Heretics
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G. K. Chesterton
The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicki…
Ecce Homo
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography, Ecce Homo, was the last prose work that he wrote before his illness in 1889. Coming at …
Stoicism
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St. George William Joseph Stock
This short book is part of the Philosophies Ancient and Modern series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the gene…
Reflections on War and Death
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Sigmund Freud
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether…