“76. David Hume – Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding77. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile – or, On Education, The Social Contract78. Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy79. Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations80. Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace81. Edward Gibbon – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography82. James Boswell – Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)84. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison – Federalist Papers85. Jeremy Bentham – Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust; Poetry and Truth87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier – Analytical Theory of Heat88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History89. William Wordsworth – Poems90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems; Biographia Literaria91. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice; Emma92. Carl von Clausewitz – On War93. Stendhal – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love94. Lord Byron – Don Juan95. Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism96. Michael Faraday – Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity97. Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology98. Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy99. Honoré de Balzac – Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet100. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men; Essays; Journal101. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter102. Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America103. John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography104. Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography105. Charles Dickens – Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times106. Claude Bernard – Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine107. Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience; Walden108. Karl Marx – Capital; Communist Manifesto109. George Eliot – Adam Bede; Middlemarch110. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick; Billy Budd111. Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov112. Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Three Stories113. Henrik Ibsen – Plays114. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales115. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger116. William James – The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism117. Henry James – The American; The Ambassadors118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals;The Will to Power119. Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method120. Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis121. George Bernard Shaw – Plays and Prefaces”
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Mortimer J. Adler,
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“They almost killed me.” “I guess they didn’t.” ― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse
“They say you can’t remember pain—the fact of it, yes, but the truth of it, the physical texture of agony? Gone and forgotten. Which makes it easy to forget that pain hurts, that the wounded life isn’t always worth living.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Now
“The lone attendant wasn’t paying any attention to the register; he just stood, mouth half open, holding the remote like maybe if he could change the channel he could change the future. The Moon was gone.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Now
“Writing again, he stressed that the events of war are always uncertain. Then, paraphrasing a favorite line from the popular play Cato by Joseph Addison - a line that General Washington, too, would often call upon - Adams told her, "We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.” ― David McCullough, John Adams
“The city has millions of stories that I don’t know. Never did and never will.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End Has Come
“The fairy tale of heaven, the promise that whatever shit happens, your story gets a happy ending. The Bible, boiled down: Once upon a time I helped some poor suckers out and someday, maybe, if you’re good, I’ll help you too,” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“I remembered that, trying to survive the battle zone, dodging artillery fire between the kid you were and the man you were supposed to be. The world screamed at you to grow up, your zits and your twitchy dick agreed it was about time, but you were still afraid of the dark, you still slept with that old teddy bear, you still wanted your mommy.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“Enjoy the moment. We don’t have forever.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“You don’t need to cure the lepers to be a faith healer. We’re all of us in my business doing the same work, because what is faith but another story that you tell yourself to feel better?” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“You are so ridiculous,” said the lion. “Thinking that your thinking is worth thinking about.” ― John Joseph Adams, Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond
“In psychological terms, he was neurotic and she was uncommonly sane. His inevitable eruptions would not threaten the marriage, because she was the center who would always hold.” ― Joseph J. Ellis, First Family: Abigail and John Adams
“Post-apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that have already burned. Apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that are burning.The End is Nigh is about the match.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“The lesson you receive from The Chronicles of Narnia is that reality is not where it’s at, my friend, so get out by any point of egress you can find and get into somewhere better.” ― John Joseph Adams, Other Worlds Than These
“Will the last person on the planet please turn off the lights?” ― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
“The dinosaurs never discovered what caused their extinction, either.” ― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
“The comic on the top of the stack catches my eye. Is this the end for Commander Justice? I wish, but of course it isn’t. I flip through the first few pages before tossing the candy-colored propaganda aside. “You really shouldn’t read this crap,” I tell Carl when he finally comes back into the room. “It can’t be doing anything for your confidence.” “I need to keep up with his latest crime-fighting techniques.” “No, you don’t. You need to shoot him in the face.” ― John Joseph Adams, The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
“Those are stories, little one,” said the cobbler. “Stories are made up except when they’re not.” ― John Joseph Adams, Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond
“They almost killed me.” “I guess they didn’t.” ― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse
“They say you can’t remember pain—the fact of it, yes, but the truth of it, the physical texture of agony? Gone and forgotten. Which makes it easy to forget that pain hurts, that the wounded life isn’t always worth living.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Now
“The lone attendant wasn’t paying any attention to the register; he just stood, mouth half open, holding the remote like maybe if he could change the channel he could change the future. The Moon was gone.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Now
“Writing again, he stressed that the events of war are always uncertain. Then, paraphrasing a favorite line from the popular play Cato by Joseph Addison - a line that General Washington, too, would often call upon - Adams told her, "We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.” ― David McCullough, John Adams
“The city has millions of stories that I don’t know. Never did and never will.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End Has Come
“The fairy tale of heaven, the promise that whatever shit happens, your story gets a happy ending. The Bible, boiled down: Once upon a time I helped some poor suckers out and someday, maybe, if you’re good, I’ll help you too,” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“I remembered that, trying to survive the battle zone, dodging artillery fire between the kid you were and the man you were supposed to be. The world screamed at you to grow up, your zits and your twitchy dick agreed it was about time, but you were still afraid of the dark, you still slept with that old teddy bear, you still wanted your mommy.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“Enjoy the moment. We don’t have forever.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“You don’t need to cure the lepers to be a faith healer. We’re all of us in my business doing the same work, because what is faith but another story that you tell yourself to feel better?” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“You are so ridiculous,” said the lion. “Thinking that your thinking is worth thinking about.” ― John Joseph Adams, Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond
“In psychological terms, he was neurotic and she was uncommonly sane. His inevitable eruptions would not threaten the marriage, because she was the center who would always hold.” ― Joseph J. Ellis, First Family: Abigail and John Adams
“Post-apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that have already burned. Apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that are burning.The End is Nigh is about the match.” ― John Joseph Adams, The End is Nigh
“The lesson you receive from The Chronicles of Narnia is that reality is not where it’s at, my friend, so get out by any point of egress you can find and get into somewhere better.” ― John Joseph Adams, Other Worlds Than These
“Will the last person on the planet please turn off the lights?” ― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
“The dinosaurs never discovered what caused their extinction, either.” ― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
“The comic on the top of the stack catches my eye. Is this the end for Commander Justice? I wish, but of course it isn’t. I flip through the first few pages before tossing the candy-colored propaganda aside. “You really shouldn’t read this crap,” I tell Carl when he finally comes back into the room. “It can’t be doing anything for your confidence.” “I need to keep up with his latest crime-fighting techniques.” “No, you don’t. You need to shoot him in the face.” ― John Joseph Adams, The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
“Those are stories, little one,” said the cobbler. “Stories are made up except when they’re not.” ― John Joseph Adams, Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond
