18 best-selling philosophy books like Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes, Mary Warnock, Richard Eyre

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Being and Nothingness

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Hazel E. Barnes , Mary Warnock , Richard Eyre

3.99

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th ce…

"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

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1. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Rene Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and it is certainly true that… read more

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"The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake."

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

"c'est une vérité très certaine que, lorsqu'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de discerner les plus vraies opinions, nous devons suivre les plus probables partie 3, para 3)"

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

"Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds rev…"

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

"Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were …"

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

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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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"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

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3. Ethics

By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more

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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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4. The Ethics of Ambiguity

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer i… read more

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5. Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more

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6. Being and Nothingness

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Hazel E. Barnes , Mary Warnock , Richard Eyre

3.99

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th ce… read more

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"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

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7. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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8. Being and Time

By: Martin Heidegger

4.05

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

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

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9. 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

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10. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

11. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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12. The Interpretation of Dreams

By: Sigmund Freud

3.86

Format: 136 pages,

The Interpretation of Dreams 1st appeared in German in 11/1899 as Die Traumdeutung (publisher postd… read more

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13. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Locke is widely regarded as the father of classical liberalism. This essay was groundbreaking … read more

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14. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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15. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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16. Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more

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"The vanity of the contents"

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"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

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17. Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

Format: 785 pages, Paperback

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more

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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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18. 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 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

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19. 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

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20. 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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"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

21. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay , Victor Eremita

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

'What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?' Eith… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

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The Ethics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir

4.00

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A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

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Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

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