St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
By: Joseph de Maistre
4.12
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg Dialogues is a startlingly relevant analysi…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Refuse to honour the genius who has abused his gifts."-Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
"Refuse to honour the genius who has abused his gifts."-Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists."-Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists."-Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
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1. A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations
By: Mencius Moldbug , None
3.96
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This provocative volume contains a concentrated dose of Unqualified Reservations, the ultimate poli… read more
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2. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
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"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
3. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
4. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
5. Being and Time
By: Martin Heidegger
4.05
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One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more
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"But “nowhere"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"El ente existente “se"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
6. Might is Right
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4.12
Format: None pages,
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3.66
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3.84
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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
9. The Insulted and Humiliated
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.09
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10. Imperium
By: Francis Parker Yockey , Ulick Varange
3.50
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11. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
12. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
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Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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By: Plato , Stanley Lombardo , Karen Bell
4.00
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14. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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3.99
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3.96
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"The vanity of the contents"-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
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"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
16. Atala / René
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3.78
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17. An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
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18. Sentimental Education
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick
3.81
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"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
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19. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None
4.21
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"Scoundrels are always sociable."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
20. Bronze Age Mindset
By: Bronze Age Pervert
3.84
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"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
21. St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
By: Joseph de Maistre
4.12
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg Dialogues is a startlingly relevant analysi… read more
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"Refuse to honour the genius who has abused his gifts."-Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists."-Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
"[. . .] The philosophy of Plato, which is the human preface of the Gospel [. . .]"-Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
"This world is a military expedition, an eternal combat. No doubt all chose who fought courageously in a battle are worthy of praise, but also there is no doubt that the greatest glory goes to the one…"-Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
