Genre :: Philosophy (57 books)

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  #241

  Stranger in a Strange Land

  by Robert A. Heinlein

  (7 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith."

  

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  #261

  Tristes Tropiques

  by Claude Lévi-Strauss

  (1 Review)

  81 Points

  "I hate travelling and explorers.Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs."

  

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  #274

  The Fountainhead

  by Ayn Rand

  (7 Reviews)

  77 Points

  "Howard Roark laughed."

  

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  #281

  Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

  by Sigmund Freud

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  

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  #287

  Democracy in America; and Two essays on America

  by Alexis de Tocqueville

  (3 Reviews)

  75 Points

  

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  #297

  On the Social Contract

  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  (3 Reviews)

  72 Points

  "My purpose is to consider if, in political society, there can be any legitimate and sure principle of government, taking men as they are and laws as they might be."

  

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  #301

  Das Kapital

  by Karl Marx

  (1 Review)

  71 Points

  

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  #303

  The Prince

  by Niccolò Machiavelli

  (6 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "All the states, all the dominions under whose authority men have lived in the past and live now have been and are either republics or principalities.It is customary for those who wish to gain the..."

  

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  #306

  Atlas Shrugged

  by Ayn Rand

  (15 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "Who is John Galt?"

  

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  #312

  Confessions

  by Saint Augustine

  (2 Reviews)

  69 Points

  "You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power and to your wisdom there is no limit.You are great, O Lord, and very worthy of praise; mighty is your power and your wisdom..."

  

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