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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,312,496 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,305 ratings — published 1997
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 396,810 ratings — published 1513
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,013 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.37 — 924,274 ratings — published 1946
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,339 ratings — published -400
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.17 — 609,934 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.69 — 206,980 ratings — published 1848
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,247,699 ratings — published -750
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,269 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 591,209 ratings — published -500
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,082,030 ratings — published 1601
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,018 ratings — published 2015
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,052 ratings — published 1949
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,044 ratings — published 1978
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,270 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,496 ratings — published 1988
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.27 — 374,130 ratings — published 180
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 432,683 ratings — published 2003
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.02 — 118,831 ratings — published 1886
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,890 ratings — published -1800
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,134 ratings — published 2006
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 528,769 ratings — published -750
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,397 ratings — published -19
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 908,233 ratings — published 2005
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,756 ratings — published -350
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,936 ratings — published 2010
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.35 — 205,693 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,178 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,912 ratings — published 1949
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,541 ratings — published 1321
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,267 ratings — published 2021
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,314 ratings — published 2009
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 186,888 ratings — published -350
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.07 — 181,966 ratings — published 1883
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.13 — 42,152 ratings — published 1945
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,564 ratings — published 1957
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,056 ratings — published 1975
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,483 ratings — published 2004
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,872 ratings — published 2009
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.09 — 94,208 ratings — published -380
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.29 — 116,695 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,067,967 ratings — published 1960
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.01 — 77,422 ratings — published 400
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.96 — 44,550 ratings — published 1859
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,618 ratings — published -335
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,321 ratings — published 2009
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.19 — 885,055 ratings — published 2008
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,252 ratings — published 1967
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as humanities)
avg rating 3.78 — 249,408 ratings — published 1974
“In life, we are often left alone by those people with whom we always loved to be along.”
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“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443)
There's not one but two kinds of knowledge,
one is empirical, another is existential.
Maths, physics, chemistry, biology,
these are empirical knowledge that explore
the building blocks of life and universe,
whereas existential knowledge of the humanities
make us unfold new meanings of life and universe,
not in an archaic, blind, preordained sort of way,
but by fostering a deeper sense of lived community.
Empirical disciplines are instrument of efficiency,
while humanities are the carrier of illumination.
Abundance on the outside counts for nothing,
if the inside is suffering from malnutrition.
Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars,
but it's humanities that make sure,
we don't leave behind our humanity,
otherwise we'll just end up a bunch of space monkeys.”
― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
There's not one but two kinds of knowledge,
one is empirical, another is existential.
Maths, physics, chemistry, biology,
these are empirical knowledge that explore
the building blocks of life and universe,
whereas existential knowledge of the humanities
make us unfold new meanings of life and universe,
not in an archaic, blind, preordained sort of way,
but by fostering a deeper sense of lived community.
Empirical disciplines are instrument of efficiency,
while humanities are the carrier of illumination.
Abundance on the outside counts for nothing,
if the inside is suffering from malnutrition.
Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars,
but it's humanities that make sure,
we don't leave behind our humanity,
otherwise we'll just end up a bunch of space monkeys.”
― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
