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Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 363,750 ratings — published 180
The Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 229,216 ratings — published -400
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 185,207 ratings — published -350
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 180,067 ratings — published 1883
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 116,820 ratings — published 1886
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as phi)
avg rating 4.32 — 58,563 ratings — published 64
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 41,884 ratings — published 1945
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 22,715 ratings — published 1921
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 61,881 ratings — published -350
The Symposium (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 92,511 ratings — published -380
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,221 ratings — published 1781
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,453,999 ratings — published 1942
Being and Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 28,257 ratings — published 1927
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
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avg rating 4.16 — 47,316 ratings — published 49
Phenomenology of Spirit (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 20,766 ratings — published 1807
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 286,505 ratings — published 1991
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 30,493 ratings — published 1962
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 23,916 ratings — published 1967
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 66,129 ratings — published 1942
Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 30,089 ratings — published 1641
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 47,829 ratings — published 1946
What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as phi)
avg rating 3.63 — 6,494 ratings — published 1987
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as phi)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,739 ratings — published 1887
Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 15,942 ratings — published 1953
The Problems of Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 18,884 ratings — published 1912
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 905,292 ratings — published 1946
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
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avg rating 4.13 — 46,686 ratings — published -400
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 583,390 ratings — published -500
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,935 ratings — published 1882
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 11,539 ratings — published 1973
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 37,622 ratings — published 1975
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 27,627 ratings — published 2008
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 21,783 ratings — published 1871
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 11,282 ratings — published 1818
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 35,473 ratings — published 1943
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 83,008 ratings — published -400
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 37,751 ratings — published 125
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 100,451 ratings — published 1942
On Liberty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,930 ratings — published 1859
The Wisdom of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 16,577 ratings — published 1851
After Virtue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 6,532 ratings — published 1982
Metaphysics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 18,364 ratings — published -330
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 554,750 ratings — published 1984
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,384 ratings — published 1580
“Highly complex numbers like the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and Phi (sometimes called the Golden Proportion), are known as irrational numbers. They lie deep in the structure of the physical universe, and were seen by the Egyptians as the principles controlling creation, the principles by which matter is precipitated from the cosmic mind.
Today scientists recognize the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and the Golden Proportion as well as the closely related Fibonacci sequence are universal constants that describe complex patterns in astronomy, music and physics. ...
To the Egyptians these numbers were also the secret harmonies of the cosmos and they incorporated them as rhythms and proportions in the construction of their pyramids and temples.”
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Today scientists recognize the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and the Golden Proportion as well as the closely related Fibonacci sequence are universal constants that describe complex patterns in astronomy, music and physics. ...
To the Egyptians these numbers were also the secret harmonies of the cosmos and they incorporated them as rhythms and proportions in the construction of their pyramids and temples.”
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“When the ancients discovered ‘Phi’, they were certain they had stumbled across God’s building block for the world.”
― The Da Vinci Code
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