Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness (Mit Press)
By: François Jullien
4.39
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The philosophical tradition in the West has always subjected life to conceptual divisions and quest…
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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
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. What the Buddha Taught
By: Walpola Rahula , None
4.18
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” s… read more
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"Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ)."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
3. 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
"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
4. The Varieties of Religious Experience
By: William James
3.56
Format: 304 pages,
Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered in Edinburgh 1901/2 "I am neither a theolo… read more
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5. The Journal of George Fox
By: George Fox , None , Rufus Matthew Jones
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
George Fox's record of his life and ministry is a Christian classic. Its pages chroncile not only F… read more
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6. Discourses and Selected Writings
By: Epictetus , Robert F. Dobbin , Robert Dobbin
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN in… read more
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7. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
8. Theaetetus
By: Plato , Robin Waterfield
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great … read more
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9. 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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10. The Analects
By: Confucius , D.C. Lau
3.20
Format: 168 pages,
This lively new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classic… read more
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11. The Present Age
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alexander Dru
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Those who would know Kierkegaard, the intesely religious humorist, the irrepressibly witty critic … read more
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12. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
By: Carlos Castaneda
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Decades ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology… read more
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13. Essays and Aphorisms
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , R.J. Hollingdale
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer believed that human action… read more
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14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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15. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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16. 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
17. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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18. The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
By: Hermann Hesse , Jack D. Zipes , David Frampton
3.93
Format: 245 pages,
To read Hermann Hesse's fairy tales is to enter a fabulous world of dreams and visions, philosophy … read more
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19. Dialogues and Essays
By: Seneca , John Davie
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca's dialogues and essays in print, capturi… read more
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20. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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21. Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese (Untimely Meditations Book 8)
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.29
Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition
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22. The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics
By: Yuk Hui
4.01
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Heidegger’s critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted … read more
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23. Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness (Mit Press)
By: François Jullien
4.39
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
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