5 best-selling philosophy books like On Religion by Mark Twain

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On Religion

By: Mark Twain

3.99

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Book Mark Twain talks about his personal views on religion, the Bible and God, in these five writ…

"Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt."

-Mark Twain, On Religion

If you liked the philosophy plot in On Religion by Mark Twain , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Macario

By: B. Traven

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Macario is the story of a poor man who has been hungry all his life. He suffers from a gnawing pove… read more

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  • classics
"La suya era una de las familias más pobres del pueblo, una de las más apreciadas por su honestidad y su modestia y además porque siempre son más queridas las familias pobres que las ricas."

-B. Traven, Macario

"Si un pobre hombre o una pobre mujer no podían ofrecerle sino sólo unos cuantos centavos, o un puerquito, o un gallo, gozaban exactamente de la misma atención que los ricos, a quienes en ocasiones ha…"

-B. Traven, Macario

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2. Les Chants de Maldoror

By: Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one… read more

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  • classics
"...the police, that shield of civilization..."

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?"

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thou…"

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

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3. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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  • classics
"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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4. La era del vacío

By: Gilles Lipovetsky , Joan Vinyoli , Michele Pendanx , Joan Vinyoli Sastre

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

Se ha afirmado que estamos en la era posmoderna. Estallido de lo social, disolucion de lo politico:… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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5. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • classics
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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6. Banalities

By: Timothy Liu , Brane Mozetič , None

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poetry. Translated from the Slovenia by Elizabeta Zargi and Timothy Liu. Fifty powerful and unsettl… read more

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7. Answer to Job

By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull

4.17

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Jung has never pursued the "psychology of religion" apart from general psychology. The unique impor… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"«Es necesario acostumbrarse a la idea de que 'tiempo' es un concepto relativo, y que propiamente tiene que ser completado por el concepto de una pleromática existencia 'simultánea' o 'bárdica' de tod…"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

"«El que algo sea una realidad 'física' no es el único criterio de verdad. También existen verdades 'anímicas', las cuales no pueden ni probarse ni explicarse, pero tampoco negarse físicamente. [...] …"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

"I would even go so far as to say that the mythical character of a life is just what expresses its universal human validity. It is perfectly possible, psychologically, for the unconscious or an archet…"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

"The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere inte…"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

8. El amor, las mujeres y la muerte

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

3.76

Format: 208 pages,

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9. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.29

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more

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  • philosophy
  • atheism
  • nonfiction
  • skepticism
"Gullibility kills."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

10. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

By: Herbert Marcuse

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more

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11. Estado de Exilio (City Lights Pocket Poets, #58)

By: Cristina Peri Rossi

4.26

Format: None pages,

A tender, moving, and multi-layered portrait of the pain, loneliness, and permanent nostalgia of ex… read more

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12. Aura

By: Carlos Fuentes

3.82

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. Th… read more

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  • classics
"Hay que morir antes de renacer."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"También el demonio fue un ángel, antes…"

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"Hay un momento en el que ya no es posible distinguir el paso de los años."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentación es más grande."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

13. Los muros de agua

By: José Revueltas

5.00

Format: 299 pages,

Cinco comunistas, entre ellos una mujer, son deportados a las Ilas Marias, como lo fue el propio au… read more

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14. The Complete Poetry

By: Clayton Eshleman , Mario Vargas Llosa , César Vallejo

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Hardcover

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available… read more

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15. Antología poética

By: Mario Benedetti

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

La presente Antologia propicia y hace posible ese encuentro del lector con una poesia fundamental, … read more

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16. Between Our Selves

By: Audre Lorde

3.93

Format: 214 pages, poetry chapbook

Poetry chapbook by Audre Lorde; limited edition of 1,100 copies. read more

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17. The Collected Poems

By: Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

"By the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. T… read more

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18. Katedra

By: Jacek Dukaj

2.97

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

7 minut i 37 stron do Hollywood Katedra nominowana do Oscara TOMEK BAGIŃSKI - twórca Katedry, fil… read more

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  • classics
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19. On Religion

By: Mark Twain

3.99

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Book Mark Twain talks about his personal views on religion, the Bible and God, in these five writ… read more

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  • classics
  • atheism
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • skepticism
"Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt."

-Mark Twain, On Religion

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20. La tierra oscura. Poemas sobre Rubén Jaramillo (Spanish Edition)

By: Silvia Tomasa Rivera

2.63

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Los poemas que conforman La tierra oscura revisitan los momentos decisivos en la vida del llamado ú… read more

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21. Undula

By: Bruno Schulz

3.84

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Hidden in the pages of Dawn: The Journal of Petroleum Officials in Boryslav for nearly a century, t… read more

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22. Mitos y delitos

By: Claribel Alegría

3.60

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

No es Claribel Alegría (Esteli, Nicaragua, 1924) una poeta exuberante en dones verbales ni en amal… read more

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23. Breviario de los vencidos

By: Emil M. Cioran

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Breviario de los vencidos, escrito en París entre 1940 y 1946, es el sexto y último libro que Ciora… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Sólo el instante es divino infinito irremediable. El instante que uno está viviendo."

-Emil M. Cioran, Breviario de los vencidos

"Il semplice fatto di esistere è talmente grave che, a paragone, Dio non è che un mero trastullo."

-Emil M. Cioran, Breviario de los vencidos

"El amor crece en los ardores de la banalidad y disminuye en los momentos de lucidez de la inteligencia. La estupidez extática se repite con facilidad porque ningún obstáculo interviene en un cerebro …"

-Emil M. Cioran, Breviario de los vencidos

24. Pertenecerme entera

By: Andrea Rivas

4.36

Format: 61 pages, Unknown Binding

En "Pertenecerme entera", Andrea Rivas penetra en sus demonios, en la mujer piedra, en la niña disf… read more

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25. No pasarán: Contra la economía caníbal

By: Édouard Martin

3.53

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

No pasarán. Contra la economía caníbal. No pasarán es un libro combativo. Es el libro de un hombre … read more

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26. Violeta del pueblo

By: Violeta Parra

4.11

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

Violeta Parra nació en 1917 en San Carlos, Nuble, Chile. A los 12 años escribió sus primeras compos… read more

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27. Antología poética

By: Edith Södergran

3.93

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Finlandesa, nacida en San Petersburgo (1892), y de lengua sueca, E. Södergran está considerada como… read more

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28. Treasures of the Night: Collected Poems (English and French Edition)

By: Jean Genet

3.52

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

English, French read more

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"এক কোনে আবদ্ধ, একটুখানি রাত রয়ে গেছে। আমাদের ভিতু আকাশে নির্মম আঘাতে স্ফূলিঙ্গ উগরে ( নৈশব্দের গাছেরা কিছু দীর্ঘশ্বাস ঝুলিয়ে রেখেছে ) এই শূন্যতার শীর্ষে গরিমার এক গোলাপ জেগে। ঘুম বড়োই বিশ্বাসঘাতক যেখানে জেলখান…"

-Jean Genet, Treasures of the Night: Collected Poems (English and French Edition)

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29. El pez rojo que nada en el pecho

By: Gioconda Belli

4.33

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

La poesía de Gioconda Belli (Managua, 1948) lo tiene todo: emoción, sensualidad, compromiso, ironía… read more

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30. El sin ventura Juan de Yuste

By: Alí Calderón

4.00

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Alí Calderón ha escrito un libro que justifica toda una obra. Pocas veces el lector encontrará un p… read more

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7 best-selling classics books like On Religion by Mark Twain

Transform Your Habits

Macario

B. Traven

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Les Chants de Maldoror

Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Transform Your Habits

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville

3.93

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Transform Your Habits

A Season in Hell

Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The 120 Days of Sodom

Marquis de Sade

3.08

Transform Your Habits

Les Chants de Maldoror

Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

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