Philosophers category: 1861 books

Colonel H.S. Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society. Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions...

Ceux qui aiment la fulgurance des citations seront servis. Par leur beauté et leur clairvoyance, vous allez à coup sûr adorer les citations de Simone Weil. C'est le recueil des pensées les plus intimes d'un philosophe au parcours particulier, renonçant...

La filosofia è una materia astratta, ostica, in una parola noiosa? Assolutamente no: anzi, proprio da ogni nostra azione quotidiana possono nascere profonde (e divertenti) riflessioni filosofiche. In queste pagine, diversi geni del pensiero vi accompagneranno passo per passo nelle vostre faccende, in...

Ramana Maharshi è stato uno dei maestri spirituali indiani più noti e amati del secolo scorso. Ciò che attraeva i visitatori era l'impressione di santità che immediatamente si provava in sua presenza. Egli irradiava un potere che era percepito da tutti come un sentimento di pace o benessere. Era...

In The Marquis d’Argens: A Philosophical Life Julia Gasper analyzes the life and works of an influential Enlightenment writer and philosopher. The facts of d’Argens’ life as well as his works have been a source of controversy due to the many rumors and anonymous publications erroneously linked...

The Continuing Legacy of Simone Weil analyzes the core work of Simone Weil and her views on the nature of the human condition, humanity’s relationship with God, and the objective state of our world. David Pollard argues that though much of Weil’s work was focused on particular conditions operating...

Extrait :  De tout temps les sages ont porté le même jugement sur la vie : elle ne vaut rien... Toujours et partout on a entendu sortir de leur bouche la même  parole, — une parole pleine de doute, pleine de mélancolie, pleine de fatigue de la vie, pleine de résistance...

Extrait : Citoyennes, Citoyens, Camarades, Laissez-moi, tout d’abord, remercier Jaurès d’avoir aussi bien posé la question, la seule question pour la solution de laquelle vous êtes réunis ce soir. Jaurès a dit la vérité, au point de vue historique...

Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and West. The book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation....

महात्मा कबीर आज हमारे बीच नहीं हैं, लेकिन अपनी कालजयी वाणी में वे युगों-युगों तक हमारे सामने परिलक्षित होते रहेंगे।...

Perdition, relapse, research in oneself and rebirth:these are the words that best represent these poems. When you have nothing left to lose, what did you really have left? "Take a pen and paper and start again"  this was the answer Sabrina decided to give at this 2018 in the dark: welcome to her mind.  

One of the greatest novelists of India who gave the people the sacred 'mantra'- Vande Mataram The Bengali Novel practically began with him. He also wrote philosophical works which stimulated independent thinking.

Conto filosófico e surrealista onde o revolucionário autor critica e retorce à sua maneira a sociedade, a mitologia e a religião.

Autobiographical sketches by the philosopher and semioticist Ernst von Glasersfeld.The author writes:"Memories are a personal affair. They are what comes to mind when you think back, not what might in fact have happened at that earlier time in your life. You can no longer be certain of what seemed important...