10 Top philosophy books like The Hymns of Zoroaster: A New Translation of the Most Ancient Sacred Texts of Iran by M.L. West

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The Hymns of Zoroaster: A New Translation of the Most Ancient Sacred Texts of Iran

By: M.L. West

3.82

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Zoroaster was one of the greatest and most radical religious reformers in the history of the world.…

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1. The Concept of the Political

By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

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2. 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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  • poetry
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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3. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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4. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tende…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

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5. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings

By: Nyogen Senzaki , Paul Reps

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Zen Flesh, Zen Boneswas published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire genera… read more

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  • poetry
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • religion
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6. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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7. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

8. The Dhammapada

By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… read more

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9. On the Incarnation

By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more

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10. 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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  • poetry
  • mythology
"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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11. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

12. Elements of the Philosophy of Right

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more

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13. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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14. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

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15. Guerre

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline

3.79

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more

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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre

"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre

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16. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)

By: Randall Munroe

4.37

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Political Romanticism

By: Carl Schmitt

4.00

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), the author of such books as Political Theology and The Crisis of Parliame… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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18. The Hymns of Zoroaster: A New Translation of the Most Ancient Sacred Texts of Iran

By: M.L. West

3.82

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Zoroaster was one of the greatest and most radical religious reformers in the history of the world.… read more

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  • poetry
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • iran
  • mythology

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4.25

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Cody Cassidy

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