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The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy

by Will Durant

IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...

1926 141 ed.
Principles of Political Economy
Principles of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill

1. HAVING proceeded thus far in ascertaining the general laws of Value, without introducing the idea of Money (except oc...

1848 133 ed.
Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Jenseits von Gut und Böse

by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Truth, which is to tempt

1885 415 ed.
A Study of History
A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...

1900 119 ed.
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

by Sir Isaac Newton

If you deny it, suppose them to be ultimately unequal, and let D be their ultimate difference.

1687 104 ed.
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

Fᴜ̈ʀ ᴅɪᴇ ᴇʀsᴛᴇ Aᴜsɢᴀʙᴇ dieses Buches habe ich kein Vorwort geschrieben – das hat freundlicherweise damal Carl Sagan über...

1988 119 ed.
The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides
The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides

by Moses Maimonides

MOSES BEN MAIMON, commonly called Maimonides (1135-1204), is the leading Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages.

1473 116 ed.
πολιτεία
πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...

1554 794 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

1600 1594 ed.
Democracy and Education
Democracy and Education

by John Dewey

The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

1916 184 ed.
Candide
Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

1746 1079 ed.
Poetics
Poetics

by Aristotle

In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...

1536 252 ed.
Inferno
Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...

1767 446 ed.
Mémoires
Mémoires

by Giacomo Casanova

"YESTERDAY," SHE said, "you left with me two portraits of my Venetian sister M. M. I beg you to make me a present of the...

1830 104 ed.
Meditations
Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

1626 642 ed.
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

1848 459 ed.
Confessions
Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

1482 449 ed.