• Abraham Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address
  • Adam Smith - The Invisible Hand
  • Albert Camus - The Fastidious Assassins
  • Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
  • Arthur Schopenhauer - On the Suffering of the World
  • Arthur Schopenhauer - The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
  • Baldesar Castiglione - How to Achieve True Greatness
  • Blaise Pascal - Human Happiness
  • Carl von Clausewitz - On the Nature of War
  • Charles Baudelaire - The Painter of Modern Life
  • Charles Darwin - Hosts of Living Forms
  • Charles Darwin - On Natural Selection
  • Charles Dickens - Night Walks
  • Charles Mackay - Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions
  • Chinua Achebe - An Image of Africa
  • Christine de Pizan - The City of Ladies
  • Chuang Tzu - The Tao of Nature
  • Cicero - An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom
  • Confucius - The First Ten Books
  • David Hume - On Suicide
  • Edmund Burke - The Evils of Revolution
  • Edward Gibbon - The Christians and the Fall of Rome
  • Epictetus - Of Human Freedom
  • Francis Bacon - Of Empire
  • Frantz Fanon - Concerning Violence
  • Frederick Jackson Turner - The Significance of the Frontier in American History
  • Friedrich Nietzsche - Man Alone with Himself
  • Friedrich Nietzsche - Why I Am So Wise
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor
  • George Eliot - Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
  • George Orwell - Books v. Cigarettes
  • George Orwell - Decline of the English Murder
  • George Orwell - Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
  • George Orwell - Why I Write
  • Giacomo Leopardi - Dialogue Between Fashion and Death
  • Hannah Arendt - Eichmann and the Holocaust
  • Henry David Thoreau - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
  • Immanuel Kant - An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?'
  • Jacob Burckhardt - The State as a Work of Art
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
  • John Berger - Why Look at Animals?
  • John Locke - Of the Abuse of Words
  • John Ruskin - On Art and Life
  • John Ruskin - The Lamp of Memory
  • John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
  • Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub
  • Jorge Luis Borges - The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise
  • Joseph de Maistre - The Executioner
  • Karl Marx - Revolution and War
  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto
  • Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
  • Leo Tolstoy - A Confession
  • Leon Trotsky - An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe
  • Lucretius - Sensation and Sex
  • Marcel Proust - Days of Reading
  • Marco Polo - Travels In the Land of Kubilai Khan
  • Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
  • Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Women
  • Michel de Montaigne - On Friendship
  • Michel de Montaigne - On Solitude
  • Michel Foucault - The Spectacle of the Scaffold
  • Niccolo Machiavelli - On Conspiracies
  • Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
  • Plato - The Symposium
  • Plutarch - In Consolation to his Wife
  • Rabindranath Tagore - Nationalism
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature
  • Rene Descartes - Meditations
  • Robert Burton - Some Anatomies of Melancholy
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - An Apology for Idlers
  • Samuel Johnson - Consolation in the Face of Death
  • Seneca - On the Shortness of Life
  • Sigmund Freud - Civilization and its Discontents
  • Sigmund Freud - The Future of an Illusion
  • Sigmund Freud - The Wolfman
  • Sir Thomas Browne - Urne-Burial
  • St Augustine - Confessions of a Sinner
  • Sun-tzu - The Art of War
  • Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
  • Søren Kierkegaard - The Sickness Unto Death
  • The Revelation of St John the Divine and the Book of Job
  • Theodore Herzl - The Jewish State
  • Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater
  • Thomas Hobbes - Of Man
  • Thomas More - Utopia
  • Thomas Paine - Common Sense
  • Thomas à Kempis - The Inner Life
  • Thorstein Veblen - Conspicuous Consumption
  • Various - Writings from the Zen Masters
  • Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
  • Virginia Woolf - Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - Imperialism
  • Voltaire - Miracles and Idolatry
  • W.E.B. Du Bois - Of the Dawn of Freedom
  • Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
  • William Hazlitt - On the Pleasure of Hating
  • William James - On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
  • William Morris - Useful Work versus Useless Toil
  • William Shakespeare - On Power
  • Winston Churchill - We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End
may 16 2012 ∞
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