14 Best nonfiction books like Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta by René Guénon

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Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta

By: René Guénon , None

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta is Guenon's central exposition of traditional metaphy…

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1. Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism

By: Algis Uždavinys

4.24

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

A book on the religious, mystic origins and substance of philosophy. This is a critical survey of a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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2. 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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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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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3. The Perennial Philosophy

By: Aldous Huxley

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as "The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reali… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Organized and balanced disunity is the necessary condition of liberty."

-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

"We cannot hope to utter anything worth saying, unless we read and inwardly digest the utterances of our betters."

-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion."

-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

"In other words, the highest form of the love of God is an immediate spiritual intuition, by which 'knower, known and knowledge are made one."

-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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4. The Ego and Its Own

By: Max Stirner , David Leopold

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1845) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Mo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Political liberty,"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"A minha causa é a causa de nada."

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"Proudhon, e.g., thinks that with the sentence “Property is theft"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

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5. Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

By: William Walker Atkinson , Three Initiates , Tre Iniziati

4.25

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

The precepts of Hermetic philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more than 2,000 years, clouded… read more

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  • esoterica
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • metaphysics
"The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations...."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the …"

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

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6. Open Letter to Confused Catholics

By: Marcel Lefebvre

4.52

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

A popular study of the crisis in the Church written for all to understand. Covers the Mass, Sacrame… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"God does not punish, just as the Church no longer condemns, except those who stay faithful to Tradition. (p. 61)"

-Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

"From such an extravegent summary, we can draw only one conclusion: either we must condemn the Second Vatican Council which authorized it, or we must condemn the Council of Trent and all the Popes who…"

-Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

"This is why I persist, and if you wish to know the real reason for my persistence, it is this. At the hour of my death, when Our Lord asks me: "What have you done with your episcopate, what have you …"

-Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

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7. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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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8. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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9. 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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10. Revolt Against the Modern World

By: Julius Evola , None

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In what many consider to be his masterwork, Evola contrasts the characteristics of the modern world… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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11. Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta

By: René Guénon , None

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta is Guenon's central exposition of traditional metaphy… read more

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  • esoterica
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • metaphysics
  • hinduism

12. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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13. The Anti-Christ

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , H.L. Mencken

3.68

Format: 420 pages,

Monumento de escandalo para idiotas, arma arrojadiza en manos torpes, o cumbre postuma del inquieta… read more

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14. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes … read more

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15. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None

4.21

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • metaphysics
"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

16. Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

By: Richard Tarnas

3.50

Format: None pages,

From a philosopher whose history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell & Huston Smith c… read more

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17. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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

18. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

By: Martin Lings

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Martin Lings' biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritati… read more

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19. Metaphysics of War

By: Julius Evola

4.06

Format: 154 pages, Unknown Binding

This is the second, revised edition of Metaphysics of Battle, Victory & Death in the World of Tradi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • metaphysics
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20. Castes and Races

By: Frithjof Schuon

4.04

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

L'autore indaga sul senso e sul concetto di casta presso le varie società e in diverse epoche stori… read more

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  • metaphysics
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21. The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts

By: Julius Evola

4.38

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In a probing analysis of the oldest Buddhist texts, Julius Evola places the doctrine of liberation … read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"We have implied that asceticism, when considered as a whole, can assume various meanings at successive spiritual levels. Simply defined, that is to say as “training"

-Julius Evola, The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts

"Modern man has not only to fight against materialism, but must also defend himself from the snares and allures of false supernaturalism. His defense will be firm and effective only if he is capable o…"

-Julius Evola, The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts

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Algis Uždavinys

4.24

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4.02

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The Perennial Philosophy

Aldous Huxley

4.12

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4.06

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David Hume

3.94

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René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

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