Found 233 results for "Spiritual life in fiction"
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
Flatland
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...
As a man thinketh
by James Allen
The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so compreh...
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...
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by other...
πολιτεία
by Πλάτων
I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon the son of Ariston, to offer a prayer to the goddess.
Tao te Ching
by 老子
The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
SIDDHARTHA, the handsome son of the Brahmin, the young falcon, grew up together with his friend Govinda, the Brahmin's s...
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black
Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...
La Divina Commedia
by Dante Alighieri
To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,
Confessions
by Augustine of Hippo
Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.
Φαίδων
by Πλάτων
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius.
The Book of the Dead
by E. A. Wallis Budge, David Lorimer
The Recensions of the great body of religious compositions, which were drawn up for the use of dead kings, nobles, pries...
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
by Robin S. Sharma
He collapsed right in the middle of a packed courtroom.