11 Best philosophy books like On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought) by Arthur Schopenhauer

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On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought)

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

3.67

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

"On the Will in Nature" was originally published in 1836 and is an extensive account of Schopenhaue…

"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought)

"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought)

"Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial"

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought)

"Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial"

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought)

If you liked the philosophy plot in On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought) by Arthur Schopenhauer , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, R.J. Hollingdale

1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. Antony and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more

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"Melt Egypt into Nile!"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"...make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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3. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher

4.16

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou… read more

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"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

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5. The Plague

By: Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of … read more

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"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

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6. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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7. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

By: Immanuel Kant , James W. Ellington , Paul Carus

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

This edition of Prolegomenaincludes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous doc… read more

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  • german literature
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  • nonfiction
  • metaphysics
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8. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • german literature
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9. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

By: George Berkeley , 贝克莱 , 关文运

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

George Berkeley was an Irish Philosopher who is best known for putting forward the idea of subjecti… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • metaphysics

10. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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11. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

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12. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

13. Three Tales

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more

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14. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

15. Rules for the Direction of the Mind

By: René Descartes , Laurence J. Lafleur

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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16. Critique of Judgment

By: Immanuel Kant , Werner S. Pluhar

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori princ… read more

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17. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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18. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

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19. The Idea of Phenomenology (Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works, 8)

By: Edmund Husserl

3.78

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

In this fresh translation of five lectures delivered in 1907 at the University of Göttingen, Edmund… read more

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20. Schopenhauer: A Biography

By: David E. Cartwright

4.23

Format: 600 pages, Hardcover

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was one of the most original and provocative thinkers of the ninete… read more

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21. On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought)

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

3.67

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

"On the Will in Nature" was originally published in 1836 and is an extensive account of Schopenhaue… read more

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"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought)

"Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial"

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought)

"That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of their being, in contrast to other races, inferior in intelligence - which, however, does not justi…"

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought)

"Since long ago all peoples have recognized that the world, apart from its physical meaning, also has a moral one. Yet everywhere the matter has only come to a vague consciousness, which, as it sought…"

-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Will in Nature (Living Time Thought)

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