Philosophers category: 1861 books

The Complete Works - Books 1-8

The Private Notebook of Muhammad Iqbal  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938), widely known as Allama Iqbal, was an academic,poet, barrister, philosopher, and politician in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan...

In this book, Tolstoy sets out his vision for a society based on Christian liberal doctrines, where all forms of violence, even violence in self-defence or revenge is prohibited. The 'Kingdom of God is Within You' became a major source of inspiration for Ghandi and his movement of passive resistance.

The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig. Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche – powerful minds whose ideas were at odds with...

The extraordinary life and ideas of one of the greatest—and most neglected—minds in history. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould....

A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.

After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed not only added an eloquent...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. After his father's death, Tolkien's son Christopher published a series of works...

"Daphne du Maurier has no equal." --Sunday Telegraph Prior to the publication of Golden Lads, Anthony Bacon was viewed as a footnote in the history of his younger brother, Francis. A fascinating historical figure in his own right, Anthony Bacon was a contemporary of the brilliant...

Biographie de Jean-Paul Sartre suivie d'une Brève histoire de l'Existentialisme et d'un article sur Sartre au Proche-Orient. Le succès de Jean-Paul Sartre, à l'origine de l'existentialisme, prit à partir de 1945 des proportions étonnantes et le philosophe devint, avec Simone de Beauvoir, le centre...

Well, here I am… I did a little star gazing in an attempt to separate the mortal and the immortal me, and I did a little star gazing so to understand the world I was thrust into. And after years of staring at the night canvas, I’ve come to realize that I was born into a world, like you were, already...

Prin intermediul experiențelor vieții mele, vreau să îți arăt că și tu poți, cititorule, oricât ar fi de greu. Nu există scuze, nu există vinovați, totul ține doar de tine – și punct! Iubesc oamenii, iubesc România și cel mai mult îl iubesc pe Dumnezeu. Stabilește-ți...