Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
By: Iris Murdoch , George Steiner , Peter Conradi
4.13
Format: 546 pages, Paperback
Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch also made significant contributions to …
Want to Read $ 14.99"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."-Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."-Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
"Any society contains propaganda, but it is important to distinguish this from art and to preserve the purity and independence of the practice of art. A good society contains many different artists doing many different things. A bad society coerces artists because it knows that they can reveal all kinds of truths."-Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
"Any society contains propaganda, but it is important to distinguish this from art and to preserve the purity and independence of the practice of art. A good society contains many different artists doing many different things. A bad society coerces artists because it knows that they can reveal all kinds of truths."-Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
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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. Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula Le Guin i… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
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- essays
- womens
"A book holds words. Words hold things."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
"If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
"You learn to say goodbye to places, to keep them in your heart and go on. Over the hills and a great way off."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
3. To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
By: Jonathan Sacks
4.54
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
One of the most respected religious thinkers of our time makes an impassioned plea for the return o… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
4. The Wind's Twelve Quarters
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.06
Format: 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Wizardry, transforming its master into a cloud of fine mist...cloning, duplicating the ideal man te… read more
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- classics
"El ocio es un estado natural y bendito"."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
"Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
"He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
"Of course I didn't read James and sit down and say, Now I'll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
5. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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- philosophy
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
6. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more
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"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
7. Possession
By: A.S. Byatt , None
3.89
Format: 555 pages, Paperback
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more
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"To a dusty shelf we aspire."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
8. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
9. A History of Western Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophyhas been universa… read more
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- classics
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10. Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
By: Iris Murdoch , George Steiner , Peter Conradi
4.13
Format: 546 pages, Paperback
Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch also made significant contributions to … read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- 20th century
- womens
- literary criticism
"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."-Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
"Any society contains propaganda, but it is important to distinguish this from art and to preserve the purity and independence of the practice of art. A good society contains many different artists do…"-Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
11. The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.34
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Ursula K. Le Guin explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to w… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- literary criticism
"There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
"The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike. The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
"A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
12. The Will to Power
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale , Walter Kaufmann
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse in… read more
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13. 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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- classics
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"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
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. Confessions
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Patrick Coleman , Angela Scholar
3.33
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
The Confessionsis Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography. Covering his first 53 years, up to 1765, i… read more
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16. Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
In 1888, the last sane year of his life Nietsche produced these two brief but devastating books. Tw… read more
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17. The Complete Cosmicomics
By: Italo Calvino , Tim Parks , William Weaver , Martin L. McLaughlin
4.47
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The definitive edition of Calvino's cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories-… read more
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18. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
19. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
20. La educación de Henry Adams
By: Henry Adams
3.63
Format: 561 pages, Hardcover
La educación de Henry Adams (1907), recientemente elegida por el consejo de la prestigiosa Modern L… read more
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"Friends are born, not made."-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams
"A friend in power is a friend lost."-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams
"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams
"The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt."-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams
21. AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
By: Verity Harding
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative te… read more
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