6 Top philosophy books like Ishmael (Ishmael, #1) by Daniel Quinn

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Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

By: Daniel Quinn

4.01

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search f…

"With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?"

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

"You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer"

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

"The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive."

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

If you liked the philosophy plot in Ishmael (Ishmael, #1) by Daniel Quinn , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

By: Riane Eisler

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The legacy of the sacred feminine. The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural … read more

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  • philosophy
  • spirituality
"[If we pursue] a positive economic future...this will entail facing up to the fact that our 'masculine' militarism is the most energy-intensive entropic activity of humans, since it converts stored e…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

"Both the mythical and archaeological evidence indicate that perhaps the most notable quality of the pre-dominator mind was its recognition of our oneness with all of nature,which lies at the heart of…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

"When we look closely, not only at what Jesus taught but at how he went about disseminating his message, time and again we find that what he was preaching was the gospel of a partnership society. He r…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

"It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the domestication of plants and animals. In fact…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

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2. The Alchemist

By: Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke , James Noel Smith

3.91

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchem… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • spirituality
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Maktub" (It is written.)"

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"Dreams are the language of God."

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure"

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"Why do we have to listen to our hearts?"

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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3. The One-Straw Revolution

By: Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • environment
"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

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4. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

By: Edward Abbey

4.08

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • environment
"The night. The stars. The river."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"I piss on you from a considerable height."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

5. The World Without Us

By: Alan Weisman

4.09

Format: 296 pages,

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more

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  • environment
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6. Spell of the Tiger: The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans

By: Sy Montgomery

2.96

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Soul of an Octopusand bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, a book that earn… read more

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7. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

By: Eduardo Kohn

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Paperback

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very founda… read more

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  • philosophy
  • environment
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8. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more

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  • environment

9. 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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10. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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11. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

By: Miguel Ruiz

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of … read more

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12. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

By: Robert M. Pirsig

3.78

Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • spirituality
  • fiction
"This forest silence improves anyone."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"The more you read, the more you calm down."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

13. Siddhartha

By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Siddhartha Este libro electronico tiene una mesa activa de los contenidos Siddhartha es una novela … read more

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14. A Language Older Than Words

By: Derrick Jensen

3.99

Format: None pages,

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15. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more

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16. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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17. Silent Spring

By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more

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18. The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

By: None

4.17

Format: 427 pages,

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoo… read more

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19. Por qué las mujeres salvarán el planeta

By: Various

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

¿El empoderamiento de las mujeres puede transformar las posibilidades de conseguir la sostenibilida… read more

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20. Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

By: Daniel Quinn

4.01

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search f… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Quinn's Ishmael (Ishmael, #1) book and Daniel Quinn's Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • spirituality
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • environment
"With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?"

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

"You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer"

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

"The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive."

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."

-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

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21. Ego Faber

By: Maurice Seleky

3.28

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In het eerste decennium van de 21e eeuw proberen enkele vrienden hun weg te vinden in een leven van… read more

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The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

Edward Abbey

4.08

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

4.09

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How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

Eduardo Kohn

4.71

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A Very Easy Death

Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

4.04

Transform Your Habits

A Girl's Story

Annie Ernaux

3.89

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Various

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

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