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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Epictetus · 128 pages
Presents a new interpretation of first century's Epictetus' clearly stated guidelines for moral progress and personal character development.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Baltasar Gracian · 196 pages
Offers practical advice on how to make your way in a chaotic world, and how to make it well. The 300 aphorisms contained here remain remarkably relevant today, addressing us today as practical guides for civility in an often uncivil world, and may serve as invitations to participate in making an uncivil world as civil as possible.
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 108 pages
Tao te Ching
老子, Yang Peng, Jordi Fibla · 120 pages
The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell · 223 pages
In The Conquest of Happiness, first published in 1930, iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell attempted to diagnose the myriad causes of unhappiness in modern life and chart a path out of the seemingly inescapable malaise so prevalent even in safe and prosperous Western societies. More than eighty years later, Russell's wisdom remains as true as it was on its initial release. Eschewing guilt-ba
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 186 pages
Meditations is a collection of personal reflections and notes by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned 161 to 180 AD), offering a profound look into the philosophy of Stoicism. It was never intended for publication, making it a raw and intimate self-help manual for the emperor during his campaigns and rule. The central theme revolves around living a good, rational, and virtuous life in harmon
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · 327 pages
Free Will
Sam Harris · 83 pages
[Free Will][1] is a 2012 book by the American author and neuroscientist Sam Harris. Harris argues that the truth about the human mind (that free will is an illusion) does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of political and social freedom, and can as well as should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig · 418 pages
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Will Durant · 543 pages
Originally published in 1926, ‘The Story of Philosophy’ profiles several prominent Western philosophers and their ideas, written by Will Durant, an American writer, historian, philosopher, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. In this enlightening and eminently readable book, Will Durant accounts the lives, ideas and views of various critical philosophical thinkers throughout history. Starting with
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Herbert Marcuse · 282 pages
Basic Writings: Ten Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time
Martin Heidegger · 464 pages
Saint Thomas Aquinas
G.K. Chesterton, Anton C. Pegis · 116 pages
" St. Thomas Aquinas is enriched by the author's unique ability to see the world through the saint's eyes, a fresh and animated view that shows us Aquinas as no other biography has. Acclaimed as the best book ever written on Aquinas by such outstanding Thomists as Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson, and Anton Pegis, this brilliant biography will completely capture the reader and leave him desirous o
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato
Karl R. Popper · 364 pages
Political Writings
Immanuel Kant · 327 pages
First published in 1970, this much-acclaimed collection of the political writings of Immanuel Kant has new been revised and expanded for publication in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Three important texts are translated here for the first time, and Professor Reiss has added, in addition to an extended bibliography, a substantial postscript, looking at recent developments in K
The Importance of Living
Lin Yutang · 459 pages
The Importance of Living is a wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world. Lin Yutang's prescription is the classic Chinese philosophy of life: Revere inaction as much as action, invoke humor to maintain a healthy attitude, and never forget that there will always be plenty of fools around who are willing-indeed, eager-to be busy, to make themselves useful, and to exercise power wh
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 197 pages
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1
Soren Kierkegaard · 650 pages