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Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.76 — 296,989 ratings — published 1759
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.15 — 436,579 ratings — published 1997
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.08 — 857,062 ratings — published 1922
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.16 — 216,381 ratings — published
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.78 — 56,413 ratings — published 1762
The Enlightenment, Volume 1: The Rise of Modern Paganism (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.13 — 429 ratings — published 1966
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,477,036 ratings — published 1988
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.19 — 499,246 ratings — published 1997
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.96 — 41,396 ratings — published 1781
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,124 ratings — published 1748
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.19 — 396 ratings — published 2001
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.37 — 846,980 ratings — published 1946
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.28 — 329,384 ratings — published 180
Two Treatises of Government (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.87 — 19,463 ratings — published 1689
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.29 — 179,110 ratings — published -350
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,949 ratings — published 2018
The Spirit of the Laws (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,336 ratings — published 1748
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.86 — 17,080 ratings — published 1690
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.88 — 34,572 ratings — published 1776
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.21 — 137,934 ratings — published 2007
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.59 — 9,239 ratings — published 1773
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.68 — 327,329 ratings — published 1719
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.66 — 68 ratings — published 2020
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.59 — 295,647 ratings — published 1726
A Treatise of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,590 ratings — published 1739
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.70 — 51,885 ratings — published 1651
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,172 ratings — published 1790
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.79 — 18,547 ratings — published 1755
The Enlightenment, Volume 2: The Science of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.06 — 183 ratings — published 1969
Letters on England (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,795 ratings — published 1733
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,024 ratings — published 1784
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,071 ratings — published 1947
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.18 — 82,222 ratings — published 1994
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.92 — 26,496 ratings — published 1792
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.26 — 739 ratings — published 2020
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,296 ratings — published 1785
The Crisis of the European Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.05 — 347 ratings — published 1935
Philosophical Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,237 ratings — published 1764
Common Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,832 ratings — published 1776
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,998 ratings — published 1779
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.12 — 250 ratings — published 1932
Be Here Now (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.34 — 42,653 ratings — published 1971
Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 15 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.78 — 23,789 ratings — published 1689
The Secret (The Secret, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.74 — 524,650 ratings — published 2006
Jacques the Fatalist (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.80 — 9,545 ratings — published 1796
The Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,342 ratings — published 1794
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.05 — 57,763 ratings — published 1782
Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 4.17 — 83 ratings — published 2011
The Nun (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,636 ratings — published 1796
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as enlightenment)
avg rating 3.77 — 36,216 ratings — published 1637
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun;
Go, soar with Plato to th’ empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;
Or tread the mazy round his followers trod,
And quitting sense call imitating God;
As Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule—
Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!”
― An Essay on Man
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun;
Go, soar with Plato to th’ empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;
Or tread the mazy round his followers trod,
And quitting sense call imitating God;
As Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule—
Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!”
― An Essay on Man
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
