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Meditations
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius · ideas
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The Republic of Plato
Socrates builds a city out of logic to find justice, then bans the poets and chains the citizens to shadows.
Plato · dialogue
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
A man seeks the divine while chasing every distraction in North Africa.
of Hippo Saint Augustine · religious
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The Prince
A former diplomat explains why successful rulers choose being feared over being loved and keeping their word only when convenient.
Niccolò Machiavelli · ideas
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
A government spends fortunes defending imaginary gold mines. The author suggests they wake up.
Adam Smith · history
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Apology
A man is on trial for his life and decides the best defense is to tell the jury they are wrong.
Plato · ideas
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson · collection
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The Consolation of Philosophy
A man loses his career and his freedom. Philosophy shows up to explain why he shouldn't care.
Boethius · ideas
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Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
A statesman and his friend debate whether virtue can actually outrun a really bad week.
Marcus Tullius Cicero · ideas
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The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer · collection
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne
A French nobleman retires to his tower to record every stray thought, bodily quirk, and historical anecdote he can find.
Michel de Montaigne · collection
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A Modest Proposal
A gentleman proposes that Ireland’s starving poor sell their year-old infants to the rich as a nutritious, high-end meat source.
Jonathan Swift · ideas
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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
A mountain-dwelling prophet descends to announce that God is dead and humans are merely a bridge to something better.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · ideas
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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
A catalog of Greek thinkers, covering their world-changing theories, their embarrassing habits, and the exact lists of every book they wrote.
Diogenes Laertius · biography
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The Enchiridion
An ex-slave explains why your reputation, your property, and your body are none of your business.
Epictetus · ideas
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Plutarch's Morals
A man who lived through the Roman Empire offers advice on how not to be a disaster.
Plutarch · ideas
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In Praise of Folly
A personified Folly argues that life is a theater where everyone is wearing the wrong costume for the right reasons.
Desiderius Erasmus · ideas
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The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle
A guide to the good life that assumes you are not a stone.
Aristotle · ideas
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Leviathan
Humans are naturally equal, meaning anyone can kill anyone. So, let us get a boss.
Thomas Hobbes · ideas
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Symposium
Seven men agree to praise love at a dinner party; nobody stops talking until sunrise.
Plato · dialogue
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Phaedo
A philosopher drinks hemlock, but not before checking the math on his own soul.
Plato · dialogue
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Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
A courtier decodes the secrets of power, the anatomy of anger, and the hidden political manuals buried inside ancient Greek myths.
Francis Bacon · collection
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Utopia
An traveler visits an island where gold is for chamber pots and war is unpopular.
Thomas Saint More · ideas
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Phaedrus
Two men leave the city walls to critique a speech about romance and rhetoric.
Plato · dialogue
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, James
A bondservant demands consistent faith, warns that the tongue is a forest fire, and tells rich men to start howling.
Richard Francis Weymouth · religious
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The Art of War
A general wants to win without actually fighting; his enemies find this deeply inconvenient.
active 6th century B.C. Sunzi · science
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On the Nature of Things
A Roman poet explains that since you are just a temporary collection of atoms, you can finally stop fearing death.
Titus Lucretius Carus · poetry
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Letters to His Son
A father micromanages his son’s social ascent through 30 years of letters regarding posture, politics, and the art of the flirt.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield · ideas
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Common Sense
A plain-spoken argument against kings that told American colonists to stop petitioning Britain and start building a navy.
Thomas Paine · ideas
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The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
A teacher keeps talking, his students keep asking, and the local government keeps ignoring the advice.
Confucius · ideas
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The Communist Manifesto
A spectre is haunting Europe, and the ruling classes are checking their locks.
Karl Marx · ideas
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Gorgias
Rhetoric is just a shortcut to popularity. Socrates prefers the hard truth, regardless of the consequences.
Plato · dialogue
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The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come
A man leaves his family to find salvation, carrying a backpack that turns out to be his own sins.
John Bunyan · novel
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Pascal's Pensées
A mathematician calculates the odds of the afterlife and finds the wager surprisingly logical.
Blaise Pascal · ideas
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Politics: A Treatise on Government
A philosopher lists how cities fall, how they thrive, and why citizens shouldn't sing the wrong songs.
Aristotle · ideas
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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
A soldier-philosopher locks himself in a room to doubt everything until only one undeniable fact remains: he is thinking.
René Descartes · science
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A philosopher demands that women stop being treated like well-dressed dolls and start being educated as rational human beings.
Mary Wollstonecraft · ideas
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
We see one event follow another. We assume a rule. We are probably guessing.
David Hume · ideas
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Pen-portraits of literary women
A collection of personal anecdotes, room descriptions, and childhood memories concerning the nineteenth century's most famous women writers.
Helen Gray Cone · ideas
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The Federalist Papers
Three men draft a government manual while their neighbors argue over the kitchen table.
Alexander Hamilton · ideas
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Ethics
God is the only substance, your emotions are just bad math, and free will is a well-worded misunderstanding.
Benedictus de Spinoza · ideas
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The Poetics of Aristotle
A philosopher breaks down why one guy crying in a play works better than ten years of war in a poem.
Aristotle · ideas
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Euthyphro
A man sues his father for murder; Socrates asks him to define piety. It goes poorly.
Plato · dialogue
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The Imitation of Christ
A monk argues that your biggest problem is yourself and offers a manual for vanishing into the Divine.
à Kempis Thomas · ideas
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
A philosopher explains how we know what we know, and why looking inside your own mind for answers is usually a trap.
John Stuart Mill · science
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Siddhartha
A rich kid ditches his father's life to find the meaning of existence, mostly by sitting near rivers.
Hermann Hesse · novel
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Emile
Keep the child away from books, cities, and other people until he is finally ready.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · dialogue
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The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Thirteen colonies list their grievances, fire the King of England, and claim the pursuit of happiness as a right.
Thomas Jefferson · ideas
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Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
A Roman senator navigates civil war, manages his secretary’s health, and hosts Julius Caesar’s two thousand soldiers for dinner.
Marcus Tullius Cicero · ideas
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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany
German intellectuals trade reason for moonlight, idealize doing absolutely nothing, and eventually misplace their shadows and their reflections.
Georg Brandes · history
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
The creator of the stars and green trees issues a final, rhyming ultimatum to mankind via a messenger in the desert.
J. M. Rodwell · ideas
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Prejudices, second series
A critic dissects the national character, finding plenty to dislike and even more to ridicule.
H. L. Mencken · history
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Letters of Pliny
A high-ranking Roman governor asks his Emperor for advice on everything from theater architecture to the legal status of philosophers.
the Younger Pliny · ideas
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Meno
A man asks if virtue can be taught; he is immediately trapped in a logic maze.
Plato · dialogue
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Theaetetus
A snub-nosed philosopher helps a brilliant student try, and fail, to define knowledge before heading to his own trial.
Plato · dialogue
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New Atlantis
A shipwrecked crew finds a hidden island where the locals have solved everything, including physics.
Francis Bacon · novel
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Friedrich Nietzsche subjects religious, moral, and historical ideals to a chemical analysis, revealing their unexpectedly human and messy foundations.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · ideas
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Laws
Three men walk to a cave and invent an entire government on the way.
Plato · dialogue
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A Treatise of Human Nature
A man tries to map the human mind, only to find the self is missing.
David Hume · ideas
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Timaeus
A Pythagorean theorist explains how the Creator used geometry, fire, and a single soul to build the physical world.
Plato · dialogue
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The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Francis Bacon · collection
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Crito
Plato · dialogue
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Orthodoxy
A man sets out to answer why he should believe in anything, and ends up in the Gospels.
G. K. Chesterton · ideas
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Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency
A Roman advisor writes to his friends about keeping calm when everything is actively falling apart.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · dialogue
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The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")
A philosopher declares God dead, survives his own intellectual winter, and dances on the ruins of morality.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · ideas
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Ion
A man claims he is a master of poetry. Socrates suggests he is just a magnet.
Plato · dialogue
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Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
The crowd says go one way; the Stoics suggest doing the exact opposite.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · ideas
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Protagoras
A man wakes Socrates at dawn to meet a celebrity teacher. Socrates demands receipts.
Plato · dialogue
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The Memorabilia
A retired general lists every time his old teacher was actually a useful, law-abiding, and deeply pious citizen.
Xenophon · biography
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The Writings of Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine · collection
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Principles of Political Economy
A systematic breakdown of why sheep grow different wool in Texas and why paying for a haircut isn't productive labor.
John Stuart Mill · history
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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
A prince leaves a gated paradise to find meaning, but discovers everything is mildly disappointing.
Samuel Johnson · novel
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Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery
Benjamin Franklin flies a kite, and suddenly everyone is trying to build the future.
George Iles · ideas
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Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece
A wanderer catalogs the sensory grit of Sicilian lava, the acoustics of Roman ruins, and the intellectual debt owed to Italian poets.
John Addington Symonds · collection
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes
Someone is mad at you. Epictetus explains why that is entirely their business, not yours.
Epictetus · ideas
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Quotes and Images From The Works of Michel De Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne · collection
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On the Sublime
active 1st century Longinus · ideas
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The Critique of Practical Reason
A guide for when your personal desires and your moral duties refuse to speak.
Immanuel Kant · ideas
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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2
Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq · ideas
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Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
Thomas Sir Browne · ideas
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Apologia pro vita sua
Accused of being a secret Roman agent, an Oxford scholar details the slow, documented collapse of his Anglican faith.
John Henry Newman · biography
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Areopagitica
A poet informs Parliament that pre-censoring books is a papal invention that makes truth lazy and gives bad ideas a promotion.
John Milton · ideas
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The Advancement of Learning
A statesman catalogs every scrap of human knowledge to show exactly how much we still have left to learn.
Francis Bacon · ideas
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Autobiography
A father attempts to build the perfect thinking machine, only for the machine to discover poetry, feelings, and parliamentary politics.
John Stuart Mill · biography
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Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
Two Roman thinkers argue about how to be old, useful, and connected.
Marcus Tullius Cicero · ideas
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Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners
B. G. Jefferis · ideas
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The Sceptical Chymist
Robert Boyle · science
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The Seventy's Course in Theology, First Year
A rigorous training manual for LDS missionaries that treats scripture as a toolbox, from ancient Hebrew kings to modern American papyrus.
B. H. Roberts · history
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"The Kingdom of God Is Within You"
The state demands you kill for it; God demands you do not. Pick one.
Leo graf Tolstoy · ideas
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Works of John Bunyan
A tinker sits in a damp prison and writes the blueprints for his own soul.
John Bunyan · collection
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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère
A tax collector turned moralist sketches the 17th-century French court with enough sharp detail to make everyone recognize their neighbor.
Jean de La Bruyère · ideas
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Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volumes 1 and 2
A woman collects 68 cases of letters and reshapes the social landscape of 18th-century London.
Mrs. Montagu · ideas
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The Land of Little Rain
A resident of the California desert charts a landscape where the land, not the law, sets the human limit.
Mary Austin · ideas
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Statesman
The Eleatic Stranger treats a city like a flock of sheep, and it gets surprisingly technical.
Plato · dialogue
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Cratylus
Are names nature’s own labels, or just a noise we decided meant something?
Plato · dialogue
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The Economist
Socrates teaches estate management, proving that keeping your pantry orderly is basically a military operation.
Xenophon · dialogue
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The Praise of Folly
Human existence requires a steady intake of delusion, bad decisions, and the occasional bribe to avoid total collapse.
Desiderius Erasmus · ideas
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The Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
A man writes thousands of letters across fifty years, and somehow, the inbox never empties.
Thomas Jefferson · ideas
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Alcibiades I
A wealthy youth tries to rule Athens, but Socrates won't let him leave the house without defining justice first.
Plato · dialogue
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Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic
A philosopher argues that if you cannot express an idea, you never actually had the intuition in the first place.
Benedetto Croce · ideas

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Revelations of Divine Love
A woman stares at a crucifix for days, then explains why everything will be well.
of Norwich Julian · religious
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The Pursuit of God
A call to stop treating religion like a textbook and start treating the divine presence as a tangible, daily reality.
A. W. Tozer · religious
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The Philippines a Century Hence
A colonial power clings to a fading era while the future organizes elsewhere.
José Rizal · ideas
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Complete Prose Works
The man who sang America's songs records its hospital wards, its silver mines, and the specific way its larks sing.
Walt Whitman · ideas
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The Jewish State
A journalist pitches a sovereign nation as a real estate and labor venture.
Theodor Herzl · biography
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Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay
To end the cycle of bloodshed, nations must form a voluntary federation and treat foreign visitors with basic hospitality.
Immanuel Kant · ideas
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The Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890
James Mooney · science
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The Kybalion
A handbook of ancient occult logic claiming the entire universe is just a thought in a very big head.
Three Initiates · ideas
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Past and Present
A Victorian philosopher holds up a medieval monk’s ledger to prove that modern capitalism has lost its soul to a stomach.
Thomas Carlyle · ideas

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The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism
A young philosopher argues the Greeks were only beautiful because they were profoundly miserable.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · history
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
A grumpy Welsh squire leads his eccentric relatives across Britain while their new footman accidentally reveals his bare backside.
T. Smollett · novel
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"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
Before Netflix, medieval towns turned the Bible into local theater for the public to enjoy.
Ernest Rhys · collection
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
You arrive like water and leave like wind. Might as well order a drink first.
Omar Khayyam · poetry
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Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
A statesman and his friend debate whether virtue can actually outrun a really bad week.
Marcus Tullius Cicero · Expository Philosophy
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Politics: A Treatise on Government
A philosopher lists how cities fall, how they thrive, and why citizens shouldn't sing the wrong songs.
Aristotle · Expository philosophy
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The Republic of Plato
Socrates builds a city out of logic to find justice, then bans the poets and chains the citizens to shadows.
Plato · dialogue
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Critias
A philosopher describes a perfect prehistoric Athens and the wealthy island empire that collapsed after losing its divine spark.
Plato · dialogue
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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
A catalog of Greek thinkers, covering their world-changing theories, their embarrassing habits, and the exact lists of every book they wrote.
Diogenes Laertius · biography
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Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
A courtier decodes the secrets of power, the anatomy of anger, and the hidden political manuals buried inside ancient Greek myths.
Francis Bacon · collection
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The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence.
A Scottish farmer writes his way from the stable to the salon, roasting hypocrites and apologizing to field mice along the way.
Robert Burns · poetry
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The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement
The world ends, the Judge arrives, and the wicked try — and fail — to talk their way out of hellfire.
Michael Wigglesworth · poetry
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
A man seeks the divine while chasing every distraction in North Africa.
of Hippo Saint Augustine · Autobiographical philosophy
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The Authoress of the Odyssey
An amateur sleuth scans the Odyssey for clues that Homer was actually a woman.
Samuel Butler · ideas
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The Apology
Socrates faces his executioner, declares he has no desire for a long, senile life, and walks away.
Xenophon · Philosophy & Ethics
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Utopia
An traveler visits an island where gold is for chamber pots and war is unpopular.
Thomas Saint More · Philosophy
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The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read
One man leaves his city for a better one, ignoring the arrows fired at his back.
John Bunyan · religious
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Gorgias
Rhetoric is just a shortcut to popularity. Socrates prefers the hard truth, regardless of the consequences.
Plato · Dialogue
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The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle
A guide to the good life that assumes you are not a stone.
Aristotle · Philosophy treatise
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Cratylus
Are names nature’s own labels, or just a noise we decided meant something?
Plato · Dialogue
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Theaetetus
A snub-nosed philosopher helps a brilliant student try, and fail, to define knowledge before heading to his own trial.
Plato · dialogue
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The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come
A man leaves his family to find salvation, carrying a backpack that turns out to be his own sins.
John Bunyan · novel
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The Enchiridion
An ex-slave explains why your reputation, your property, and your body are none of your business.
Epictetus · ideas
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A Modest Proposal
A gentleman proposes that Ireland’s starving poor sell their year-old infants to the rich as a nutritious, high-end meat source.
Jonathan Swift · ideas
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Statesman
The Eleatic Stranger treats a city like a flock of sheep, and it gets surprisingly technical.
Plato · Dialogue
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Protagoras
A man wakes Socrates at dawn to meet a celebrity teacher. Socrates demands receipts.
Plato · dialogue
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Plutarch's Morals
A man who lived through the Roman Empire offers advice on how not to be a disaster.
Plutarch · Philosophy essays
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The Consolation of Philosophy
A man loses his career and his freedom. Philosophy shows up to explain why he shouldn't care.
Boethius · ideas
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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère
A tax collector turned moralist sketches the 17th-century French court with enough sharp detail to make everyone recognize their neighbor.
Jean de La Bruyère · ideas
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In Praise of Folly
A personified Folly argues that life is a theater where everyone is wearing the wrong costume for the right reasons.
Desiderius Erasmus · ideas
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The Imitation of Christ
A monk argues that your biggest problem is yourself and offers a manual for vanishing into the Divine.
à Kempis Thomas · expository
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The Praise of Folly
Human existence requires a steady intake of delusion, bad decisions, and the occasional bribe to avoid total collapse.
Desiderius Erasmus · ideas
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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
A mountain-dwelling prophet descends to announce that God is dead and humans are merely a bridge to something better.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · ideas
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The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
A teacher keeps talking, his students keep asking, and the local government keeps ignoring the advice.
Confucius · ideas
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The Memorabilia
A retired general lists every time his old teacher was actually a useful, law-abiding, and deeply pious citizen.
Xenophon · biography
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Alcibiades I
A wealthy youth tries to rule Athens, but Socrates won't let him leave the house without defining justice first.
Plato · dialogue
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On the Nature of Things
A Roman poet explains that since you are just a temporary collection of atoms, you can finally stop fearing death.
Titus Lucretius Carus · poetry
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Timaeus
A Pythagorean theorist explains how the Creator used geometry, fire, and a single soul to build the physical world.
Plato · dialogue
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Phaedo
A philosopher drinks hemlock, but not before checking the math on his own soul.
Plato · dialogue
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Symposium
Seven men agree to praise love at a dinner party; nobody stops talking until sunrise.
Plato · dialogue
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Meno
A man asks if virtue can be taught; he is immediately trapped in a logic maze.
Plato · Dialogue
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Apology
A man is on trial for his life and decides the best defense is to tell the jury they are wrong.
Plato · ideas
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Euthyphro
A man sues his father for murder; Socrates asks him to define piety. It goes poorly.
Plato · dialogue
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Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
The crowd says go one way; the Stoics suggest doing the exact opposite.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Philosophy
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Ion
A man claims he is a master of poetry. Socrates suggests he is just a magnet.
Plato · dialogue
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Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency
A Roman advisor writes to his friends about keeping calm when everything is actively falling apart.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · dialogue
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Phaedrus
Two men leave the city walls to critique a speech about romance and rhetoric.
Plato · Dialogue
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The Economist
Socrates teaches estate management, proving that keeping your pantry orderly is basically a military operation.
Xenophon · dialogue
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Laws
Three men walk to a cave and invent an entire government on the way.
Plato · dialogue
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Mosses from an old manse
A man wanders his garden, stares at his reflection, and finds ghosts in the furniture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne · collection
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
A man tries to outrun his own marriage, but Ann Whitefield is a very persistent guardian.
Bernard Shaw · play
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
An undercover detective infiltrates a cabal of anarchists, only to find the revolution is surprisingly bureaucratic.
G. K. Chesterton · novel

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‘Abdu'l-Bahá in London
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá · ideas
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‘Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet to Dr. Forel
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá · ideas
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'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · poetry
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'Jesus Himself'
Andrew Murray · ideas
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'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation
Aaron Hill · ideas
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'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!'
Irvin S. Cobb · ideas
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'Trusty and well beloved'
E. W. Hornung · biography
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'Up the Country': Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India
Emily Eden · travel
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"'Tis Sixty Years Since"
Charles Francis Adams · ideas
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"A Most Unholy Trade," Being Letters on the Drama by Henry James
Henry James · play
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"About My Father's Business": Work Amidst the Sick, the Sad, and the Sorrowing
Thomas Archer · ideas
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"America for Americans!"
John Philip Newman · ideas
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"Bear ye one another's burdens." A Plain Sermon on the Lancashire Distress
James Galloway Cowan · ideas
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"Beautiful Thoughts"
Henry Drummond · ideas
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"Bethink Yourselves!"
Leo graf Tolstoy · ideas
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"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message
William T. Ellis · biography
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"Born of the Spirit;" or, Gems from the Book of Life
Zenas Osborne · biography
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"Colony,"--or "Free State"? "Dependence,"--or "Just Connection"? "Empire,"--or "Union"?
Alpheus Henry Snow · ideas
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"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
Before Netflix, medieval towns turned the Bible into local theater for the public to enjoy.
Ernest Rhys · collection
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"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects)
Mary Lady Ross · ideas
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"He was buried." A Sermon for Easter Even
Thomas Macgill · ideas
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"Hear Ye the Rod, and Who Hath Appointed It"
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"How Can I Help to Abolish Slavery?" or, Counsels to the Newly Converted
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"I Believe" and other essays
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"Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers"
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"Impromptu"; or, How to Think on Your Feet
Grenville Kleiser · manual
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"In the twinkling of an eye"
Sydney Watson · novel
In the library
"Jesus Says So"
biography
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"Let Us Have Peace"
Logan H. Roots · biography
In the library
"Light Ho, Sir!"
Frank Thomas Bullen · novel
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"Mormon" Doctrine Plain and Simple; Or, Leaves from the Tree of Life
Charles W. Penrose · ideas
In the library
"My Visit to Tolstoy": Five Discourses
Joseph Krauskopf · biography
In the library
"Nothing Between"
Edward Hoare · ideas
In the library
"Out of the East": Reveries and Studies in New Japan
Lafcadio Hearn · myth
In the library
"Pennsylvania Dutch," and other essays
Phebe Earle Gibbons · science
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"Swingin round the cirkle"
David Ross Locke · ideas
In the library
"The Greatest Failure in All History"
John Spargo · ideas
The story in one page
"The Kingdom of God Is Within You"
The state demands you kill for it; God demands you do not. Pick one.
Leo graf Tolstoy · ideas
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"The Numbering of the People"
George Allen · ideas
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"The story of my life"
Egerton Ryerson · biography
In the library
"The System," As Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution
Franklin Hichborn · ideas
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"They're a multitoode" and other stories
F. C. Stephenson · short story
In the library
"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"
Bernard Fresenborg · biography
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"White man bery unsartin": "Nigger haint got no friends, no how"; the blackest chapter in the history of the Republican Party; the men who robbed and combined to rob the freedmen of their hard earnings.
F. Colburn Adams · ideas
In the library
1900; or, The last President
Ingersoll Lockwood · novel
In the library
1995 United States Congressional Address Book
United States · reference
In the library
88 Favourite Carols and Hymns for Christmas
poetry