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The Idea Without the 400-Page Headache

The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

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9,386 philosophy & ideas

Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation

Thomas Saint More · ideas

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

David Hume · ideas

Dialogues of the Dead

George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton · play

Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

Jakob Böhme · ideas

K. Kay Shearin · biography

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 70: December 1668

Samuel Pepys · biography

Adolphus William Sir Ward · novel

Dickory Cronke: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder

Daniel Defoe · novel

Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky

Leon Trotsky · ideas

Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2)

John Morley · ideas

Diplomatic Days

Edith O'Shaughnessy · biography

Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum

J. W. Sullivan · ideas

Directives from the Guardian

Effendi Shoghi · ideas

Discipline and Other Sermons

Charles Kingsley · ideas

Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry

Samuel Cobb · 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

Discourses in America

Matthew Arnold · ideas

Discourses of Brigham Young

Brigham Young · ideas

Discourses of Keidansky

Bernard G. Richards · ideas

Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life

Luigi Cornaro · manual

Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry

John Dryden · myth

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

Niccolò Machiavelli · ideas

Discourses on Various Subjects, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Jacob Duché · ideas

Discourses: Biological & Geological

Thomas Henry Huxley · science

Discoveries and Inventions: A lecture by Abraham Lincoln delivered in 1860

Abraham Lincoln · ideas

Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems

Ben Jonson · poetry

Discoveries: A Volume of Essays

W. B. Yeats · ideas

Discussion on American Slavery

George Thompson · ideas

Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences

Martin Luther · ideas

Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas

Walter Sichel · biography

Dissertation on Slavery

St. George Tucker · ideas

Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts

John Robert Scott · ideas

Distributive Justice: The Right and Wrong of Our Present Distribution of Wealth

John A. Ryan · ideas

Diversions of a Naturalist

E. Ray Sir Lankester · science

Divine Authority; Or, the Question: Was Joseph Smith Sent of God?

Orson Pratt · ideas

Divine Mercy; or, the temporal advantages of the Sabbath

George Bryan · ideas

Isaac Watts · poetry

Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653)

An active 17th century Collins · poetry

Divorce versus Democracy

G. K. Chesterton · ideas

Do the Dead Return? A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco

Doctor and Patient

S. Weir Mitchell · ideas

Rudyard Kipling · ideas

Doctrine of the Will

Asa Mahan · ideas

Does civilization need religion?

Reinhold Niebuhr · ideas

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 3, March 1886

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, April, 1886

Eldridge B. Hatcher · novel