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The Man Who Was Thursday: A NightmareG. K. Chesterton
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
The Confessions of St. AugustineAugustine of Hippo
Ecce HomoFriedrich Nietzsche
A Pickle for the Knowing OnesTimothy Dexter
Selected Works of Voltairine de CleyreVoltairine De Cleyre
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent PhilosophersDiogenes Laertius
The Kama Sutra of VatsyayanaVatsyayana
The EnchiridionEpictetus
Plutarch's MoralsPlutarch
The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
SymposiumPlato
ApologyPlato
Cicero’s Tusculan DisputationsMarcus Tullius Cicero
Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the AncientsFrancis Bacon
PhaedrusPlato
The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli
PhaedoPlato
UtopiaSaint Thomas More
Confessions of Jean Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau
On the Nature of ThingsTitus Lucretius Carus
Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Thus Spake ZarathustraFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Consolation of PhilosophyBoethius
Walden, and On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau
LeviathanThomas Hobbes
Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke
The RepublicPlato
On LibertyJohn Stuart Mill
The ProphetKahlil Gibran
The Nicomachean Ethics of AristotleAristotle
The Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant
The Crown of Wild OliveJohn Ruskin
As a Man ThinkethJames Allen
The Problems of PhilosophyBertrand Russell
The Genealogy of MoralsFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
SibyllaC. A. Mace
The Will to BelieveWilliam James
The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx
On WarCarl von Clausewitz
The Twilight of the IdolsFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Essays by Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson
EthicsBenedictus de Spinoza
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and InductiveJohn Stuart Mill
The Poetics of AristotleAristotle
SiddharthaHermann Hesse
Pascal's PenséesBlaise Pascal
Past and PresentThomas Carlyle
An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingDavid Hume
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1John Locke
The Principles of PsychologyWilliam James
Discourse on the MethodRené Descartes
GorgiasPlato
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume IAugustus De Morgan
The City of God, Volume IAugustine of Hippo
Democracy and EducationJohn Dewey
The Varieties of Religious ExperienceWilliam James
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great PhilosophersElbert Hubbard
NatureRalph Waldo Emerson
Leibniz’s New EssaysJohn Dewey
The Legacy of Greece
A System of Logic, Vol. 1John Stuart Mill
World as Will and IdeaArthur Schopenhauer
Psychology of the UnconsciousC. G. Jung
Homer’s Odyssey: A CommentaryDenton Jaques Snider
The Theories of DarwinRudolf Schmid
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume IIAugustus De Morgan
The Marriage of Heaven and HellWilliam Blake
Creative EvolutionHenri Bergson
UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill
How to Live on 24 Hours a DayArnold Bennett
The Life RadiantLilian Whiting
Human, All Too HumanFriedrich Nietzsche
Evolution, Old & NewSamuel Butler
A TheodicyAlbert Taylor Bledsoe
The World’s Greatest Books
A Treatise of Human NatureDavid Hume
The Anatomy of MelancholyRobert Burton
The Dawn of DayFriedrich Nietzsche
The Social Contract & DiscoursesJean-Jacques Rousseau
The Wisdom of LifeArthur Schopenhauer
The Sceptical ChymistRobert Boyle
EuthyphroPlato
The Mind and the BrainAlfred Binet
The Will to Power, Volume IIFriedrich Nietzsche
Mysticism and Logic and Other EssaysBertrand Russell
Manhood of HumanityAlfred Korzybski
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral MaximsFrançois de La Rochefoucauld
Natural Law in the Spiritual WorldHenry Drummond
How We ThinkJohn Dewey
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious SystemWilliam Wilberforce
EmileJean-Jacques Rousseau
The Subjection of WomenJohn Stuart Mill
A Vindication of the Rights of WomanMary Wollstonecraft
Jeremiah: Being the Baird Lecture for 1922George Adam Smith
The English Utilitarians, Volume 2: James MillLeslie Stephen
Devotions Upon Emergent OccasionsJohn Donne
The Will to Power, Volume IFriedrich Nietzsche
PragmatismWilliam James
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of MoralsImmanuel Kant
Seneca’s MoralsSeneca
Revelations of Divine Loveof Norwich Julian
The Approach to PhilosophyRalph Barton Perry
LawsPlato
Zoölogische PhilosophieJean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck
The Temple of NatureErasmus Darwin
Studies in PessimismArthur Schopenhauer
Counsels and MaximsArthur Schopenhauer
The Joyful WisdomFriedrich Nietzsche
Self-HelpSamuel Smiles
The Life of ReasonGeorge Santayana
TheaetetusPlato
Humanistic NursingJosephine G. Paterson
TimaeusPlato
The Philosophy of Friedrich NietzscheH. L. Mencken
What Nietzsche TaughtWillard Huntington Wright
Considerations on Representative GovernmentJohn Stuart Mill
Minor DialoguesSeneca
Sexueele Zeden in Woord enD. Ph. van Vloten Elderinck
Friedrich NietzscheGeorg Brandes
Apology, Crito, and PhaedoPlato
What’s Wrong with the WorldG. K. Chesterton
Erotika Biblioncomte de Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti Mirabeau
MenoPlato
The Apologia and Florida of ApuleiusApuleius
The Life of Friedrich NietzscheDaniel Halévy
On LoveStendhal
The Conquest of BreadPeter Kropotkin
Aesthetical EssaysFriedrich Schiller
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of MoralsDavid Hume
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient ReasonArthur Schopenhauer
The Cult of IncompetenceÉmile Faguet
The MemorabiliaXenophon
The Simple LifeCharles Wagner
Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsImmanuel Kant
India: What Can It Teach Us?F. Max Müller
Esprit des lois (Livres I à V)baron de Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
A Manual of Moral PhilosophyAndrew P. Peabody
Crito Plato
The Theory of Moral SentimentsAdam Smith
An Essay on Professional EthicsGeorge Sharswood
The Logic of HegelG. W. F. Hegel
What Is Man? and Other EssaysMark Twain
Human Nature and ConductJohn Dewey
A Commentary to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason Norman Kemp Smith
Sartor ResartusThomas Carlyle
Book of Wise SayingsW. A. Clouston
The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3)Leslie Stephen
Early Greek Philosophy & Other EssaysFriedrich Nietzsche
The Basis of MoralityArthur Schopenhauer
The Analysis of MindBertrand Russell
LaughterHenri Bergson
Progress and History
The Case of WagnerFriedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche and Other Exponents of IndividualismPaul Carus
Principia EthicaG. E. Moore
IonPlato
Tragic Sense of LifeMiguel de Unamuno
Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of ManOscar Wilde
The Art of ControversyArthur Schopenhauer
ProtagorasPlato
Maxims and ReflectionsJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our Knowledge of the External WorldBertrand Russell
Six Metaphysical Meditations René Descartes
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce
On the SublimeLonginus
Autobiography of J. S. MillJohn Stuart Mill
Mind and Motion and MonismGeorge John Romanes
Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaSamuel Johnson
CritiasPlato
The Art of LiteratureArthur Schopenhauer
The Conduct of LifeRalph Waldo Emerson
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley
Treatises on Friendship and Old AgeCicero
SophistPlato
Time and Free Will Henri Bergson
Society and Solitude Ralph Waldo Emerson
Representative MenRalph Waldo Emerson
The Theistic Conception of the World B. F. Cocker
Discourse on the Origin of InequalityJean-Jacques Rousseau
The Problem of ChinaBertrand Russell
The Ego and His Own Max Stirner
On Human NatureArthur Schopenhauer
On the Improvement of the UnderstandingBaruch Spinoza
The Analogy of Religion Joseph Butler
Amiel’s JournalHenri-Frédéric Amiel
Statesman Plato
Cratylus Plato
The Economist Xenophon
Eureka Edgar Allan Poe
Parmenides Plato
Philebus Plato
Lectures and Biographical Sketches Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lysis Plato
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous George Berkeley
Optimism Helen Keller
The Meaning of Truth William James
History of Modern PhilosophyRichard Falckenberg
Man a Machine Julien Offray de La Mettrie
The Republic of Cicero Cicero
Laches Plato
Christianity and Greek Philosophy B. F. Cocker
Selections from the Principles of Philosophy René Descartes
The Philosophy of Natural Theology William Jackson
Reconstruction in Philosophy John Dewey
Euthydemus Plato
Chance, Love, and Logic Charles S. Peirce
The Symposium of Xenophon Xenophon
The Philosophy of Spinoza Baruch Spinoza
A Pluralistic Universe William James
The Kabbalah Christian D. Ginsburg
On the Philosophy of Discovery William Whewell
The Teaching of Epictetus Epictetus
MenexenusPlato
Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold
Creative Intelligence John Dewey
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley
Selected Essays David Hume
Ingersollia Robert G. Ingersoll
A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on Evolution Cora May Williams
Rousseau and Romanticism Irving Babbitt
Philosophy Bertrand Russell
Lay Morals and Other Papers Robert Louis Stevenson
Thoughts Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule
Essays in Experimental Logic John Dewey
Auguste Comte and Positivism John Stuart Mill
Logic, Inductive and DeductiveWilliam Minto
The Evolution of the Idea of God Grant Allen
Physico-Theology William Derham
History of Modern PhilosophyAlfred William Benn
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity Rudolf Steiner
The Philosophy of Auguste Comte Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
The Game and Playe of the Chesse Jacobus de Cessolis
Lesser Hippias Plato
The Destiny of the Soul William Rounseville Alger
Letters and Social Aims Ralph Waldo Emerson
First Principles Herbert Spencer
Adventures in Friendship David Grayson
Petrarch’s Secret Petrarch
An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent John Henry Newman
Miscellanies: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson
The City of the Sun Tommaso Campanella
The Law of Civilization and Decay Brooks Adams
Hiero Xenophon
Compensation Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays and Dialogues Giacomo Leopardi
Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys
Pragmatism and Idealism William Caldwell
On the Prospects of Christianity George Bernard Shaw
Hume Thomas Henry Huxley
Prolegomena to the Study of Hegel’s Philosophy William Wallace
The Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufayl
Life and Habit Samuel Butler
Table Talk Samuel Taylor Coleridge
History of Scientific Ideas William Whewell
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy George Santayana
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates Xenophon
The Art of Logical Thinking William Walker Atkinson
Soliloquies in England George Santayana
Ideal Commonwealths Henry Morley
The Story of My Heart Richard Jefferies
Theory and History of Historiography Benedetto Croce
Naturalism and Religion Rudolf Otto
Thoughts on Man William Godwin
The Story of Utopias Lewis Mumford
Elements of Metaphysics A. E. Taylor
Essays and Soliloquies Miguel de Unamuno
Kant’s Theory of Knowledge H. A. Prichard
God, the Invisible King H. G. Wells
The Will to Doubt Alfred H. Lloyd
Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine D. H. Lawrence
Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays Friedrich Schiller
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit Samuel Taylor Coleridge
De Amicitia and Scipio’s Dream Cicero
Illustrations of Universal Progress Herbert Spencer
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species Thomas Clarkson
The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico Benedetto Croce
An Analysis of Religious Belief Viscount Amberley
The History of the Devil Daniel Defoe
Monism as Connecting Religion and Science Ernst Haeckel
The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft John Webster
Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson John Charlton Hardwick
Protestantism and Catholicity Compared Jaime Balmes
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and Julian Against the Christians Thomas Taylor
Not Paul, but Jesus Jeremy Bentham
Lao-tzu: A Study in Chinese Philosophy Thomas Watters
A New Philosophy Edouard Le Roy
Preface to Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw
The Religion of Plutarch John Oakesmith
The Place of Animals in Human Thought Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Aristotle A. E. Taylor
Select Works of Porphyry Porphyry
Concord Days Amos Bronson Alcott
Schopenhauer Thomas Whittaker
Wisdom and Destiny Maurice Maeterlinck
Zones of the Spirit August Strindberg
Philosophy of the Practical Benedetto Croce
A Fantasy of Far Japan Kenchō Suematsu
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip
The Philosophy of Disenchantment Edgar Saltus
Winds of Doctrine George Santayana
A History of Philosophy in Epitome Albert Schwegler
Natural History of Intellect Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Drama of Love and Death Edward Carpenter
The Nature of Man Élie Metchnikoff
Grounds of Natural Philosophy Margaret Cavendish
Ecclesiastes Anonymous
The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy John Dewey
Studies in Life from Jewish Proverbs W. A. L. Elmslie
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant A. D. Lindsay
Tolerance Hendrik Willem van Loon
Initiation into Philosophy Émile Faguet
Solitude Johann Georg Zimmermann
Bronson Alcott’s Fruitlands Clara Endicott Sears
The Sources of Religious Insight Josiah Royce
Pantheism, Its Story and Significance J. Allanson Picton
Major Prophets of To-Day Edwin E. Slosson
Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore
An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour Bernard Mandeville
Philosophical Studies G. E. Moore
Plutarch on the Delay of the Divine Justice Plutarch
Historia Calamitatum Peter Abelard
Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics William Thomas Thornton
Three Philosophical Poets George Santayana
A Cynic Looks at Life Ambrose Bierce
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater
The Roadmender Michael Fairless
Science and the Infinite Sydney T. Klein
Character and Opinion in the United States George Santayana
The Existence of God François Fénelon
Modern French Philosophy J. Alexander Gunn
An Essay on the History of Civil Society Adam Ferguson
Library Notes A. P. Russell
Homer and Classical Philology Friedrich Nietzsche
The Silesian Horseherd F. Max Müller
God the Known and God the Unknown Samuel Butler
The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard Elbert Hubbard
Jewish History Simon Dubnow
On the Significance of Science and Art Leo Tolstoy
The Discovery of the Future H. G. Wells
The Chinese Classics: Prolegomena James Legge
Evolution F. B. Jevons
Ocellus Lucanus on the Nature of the Universe Ocellus Lucanus
Philo-Judæus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich
The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell
Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato Thomas Taylor
The Philosophy of Despair David Starr Jordan
Dickory Cronke Daniel Defoe
Prophets of Dissent Otto Heller
Rudolf Eucken: A Philosophy of Life Abel J. Jones
Apollonius of Tyana G. R. S. Mead
Youth and Life Randolph Bourne
Cobwebs of Thought Arachne
Baron d’Holbach Max Pearson Cushing
The Epicure Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus Against War Desiderius Erasmus
Pragmatism D. L. Murray
Review of Mill’s Examination of Hamilton George Grote
An Essay on the Beautiful Plotinus
A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation Thomas More
The True Standards of Wit, Humour and Satire Corbyn Morris
The Logic of Modern Physics P. W. Bridgman
The Pragmatic Theory of Truth Denton Loring Geyer
Phaethon Charles Kingsley
The Principles of Aesthetics DeWitt H. Parker
The Meaning of Good G. Lowes Dickinson
The Banquet Dante Alighieri
Locke Thomas Fowler
Towards the Great Peace Ralph Adams Cram
Hilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
Tablets A. Bronson Alcott
Mountain Paths Maurice Maeterlinck
Mr. Gladstone and Genesis Thomas Henry Huxley
Political Fragments of the Pythagoreans Stobaeus
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones
An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken’s Philosophy W. Tudor Jones
Egotism in German Philosophy George Santayana
The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood Ramon Llull
A Logic of Facts George Jacob Holyoake
Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics John Dewey
Youth and Egolatry Pío Baroja
Life’s Basis and Life’s Ideal Rudolf Eucken
A Short History of Greek Philosophy John Marshall
Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey
Seventy Years Among Savages Henry S. Salt
The Heart’s Domain Georges Duhamel
Liberty in the Nineteenth Century Frederic May Holland
King Alfred’s Version of St. Augustine’s Soliloquies King Alfred
The Child of the Dawn A. C. Benson
Thoughts upon Slavery John Wesley
The Ethics of Hercules Robert Chenault Givler
Benedetto Croce Raffaello Piccoli
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus
Selections from Previous Works Samuel Butler
The Chief End of Man George Spring Merriam
A Dead Man’s Diary Coulson Kernahan
Death Maurice Maeterlinck
The Awakening of the Soul Ibn Tufayl
War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ David Low Dodge
Dante: Six Sermons Philip H. Wicksteed
Beautiful Thoughts Henry Drummond
Through Nature to God John Fiske
Decadence and Other Essays Remy de Gourmont
The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer John Gerard
Parallel Paths T. W. Rolleston
The Peak in Darien Frances Power Cobbe
The Basis of Early Christian Theism Lawrence Thomas Cole
The Mutual Influence of Christianity and the Stoic School James Henry Bryant
The Seekers Jessie E. Sampter
The Man from Mars William Simpson
Gleanings from Maeterlinck Maurice Maeterlinck