Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

A Vindication of Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

1 The Psalms sung throughout the world.

Der Antichrist

by Friedrich Nietzsche

LET us look each other in the face.

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

1 Every craft and every line of inquiry, and likewise every action and decision, seems to seek some good; that is why so...

Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A GLANCE at the occupational statistics of any country of mixed religious composition brings to light with remarkable fr...

The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE, an international association of workers, which could of course be only a secret one under the cond...

Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

by Πλάτων

Je ne sais trop, Atheniens, quel effet mes accusateurs ont pu produire sur vous.

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any c...

La Poetica

by Aristotle

We speak in many ways of what is, i.e. the ways distinguished earlier in our work on the several ways in which things ar...

Lives

by Plutarch

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...

Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine

AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...

Also sprach Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Prologue: Zarathustra speaks of the death of God and proclaims the overman.

Tractatus logico-philosophicus

by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Isidoro Reguera Pérez

Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-o...

Tao te Ching

by 老子

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...

Lun yu

by Confucius

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

Pan ddeffrodd Mr a Mrs Dursley ar y bore Mawrth tamp, llwyd hwnnw lle mae ein stori ni'n dechrau, doedd dim byd yn yr aw...