“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
“We haven't met yet, I'm Brandon Taylor." Dear Lord that voice could warm me on the coldest day of the year.” ― Molly McAdams, Taking Chances
“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.[Letters to John Taylor, 1814, XVIII, p. 484]” ― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“The difference between a hero and a victim? Timing.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“History doesn’t quite repeat itself, but damn, it sure can rhyme.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Sometimes God puts people exactly where they need to be. Even when they don’t know it.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“The easiest lies to tell are the true ones.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Darby preferred to live her life wide-eyed, tormented, running, because nothing can catch you if you never stop.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Don’t fear the pros. The pros know what they’re doing, and do it cleanly. Fear the amateurs.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“There’s refuge in normalcy — if you can hold onto it.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Inhale. Count to five. Exhale. Forward motion.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“I've learned that what has a good beginning needs also a good ending.Spoken by the hero, Adam Tremain” ― Day Taylor, The Black Swan
“You’ll never know if you don’t let people in.” ― Taylor Adams, The Last Word
“My Chemical Romance, “I Don’t Love You” New Order, “Bizarre Love Triangle” Coheed and Cambria, “The Afterman” U2, “Ordinary Love” Coheed and Cambria, “Pearl of the Stars” Tears for Fears, “Woman in Chains” (with Oleta Adams) U2, “Every Breaking Wave” The Arcadian Project, “Hey There, Pretty Girl” Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” Everything But The Girl, “I Don’t Understand Anything” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Fifth Day” Gnarls Barkley, “Smiley Faces” The Airborne Toxic Event, “This Is London” My Chemical Romance, “Planetary (GO!)” U2, “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Way Home” Coldplay, “Fix You” The Strokes, “Reptilia” Simple Minds, “When Two Worlds Collide” The Smashing Pumpkins, “1979” The Arcadian Project, “The Windmill” Leonard Cohen, “Anthem” My Chemical Romance, “The Only Hope for Me Is You” Heaven 17, “Let Me Go” (extended version) Our Last Night, “Skyfall” My Chemical Romance, “The Kids from Yesterday” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Graveyard near the House” Green Day, “Troublemaker” James Taylor, “Carolina in My Mind” Simple Minds, “Waterfront” Muse, “Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)” U2, “Kite” The Arcadian Project, “The Disappearance Symphony: One Last Question” ― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son
“Up and down lost all meaning. Her world became a violent tumble-dryer, an endless, crashing kaleidoscope.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Excuses are poison,” Ed repeated. “Doing the right thing is hard. Talking yourself out of it is easy.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“You’re the sum of every trait I’ve ever hated in a human being.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Khloe Kinsella, Lexa Reed, Cole Harris, Drew Adams, Taylor Frost, Carina Johansson, Clare Bryant, Brielle Monaco, Zack Reynolds, Garret van Camp” ― Jessica Burkhart, Famous
“We haven't met yet, I'm Brandon Taylor." Dear Lord that voice could warm me on the coldest day of the year.” ― Molly McAdams, Taking Chances
“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.[Letters to John Taylor, 1814, XVIII, p. 484]” ― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“The difference between a hero and a victim? Timing.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“History doesn’t quite repeat itself, but damn, it sure can rhyme.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Sometimes God puts people exactly where they need to be. Even when they don’t know it.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“The easiest lies to tell are the true ones.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Darby preferred to live her life wide-eyed, tormented, running, because nothing can catch you if you never stop.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Don’t fear the pros. The pros know what they’re doing, and do it cleanly. Fear the amateurs.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“There’s refuge in normalcy — if you can hold onto it.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Inhale. Count to five. Exhale. Forward motion.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“I've learned that what has a good beginning needs also a good ending.Spoken by the hero, Adam Tremain” ― Day Taylor, The Black Swan
“You’ll never know if you don’t let people in.” ― Taylor Adams, The Last Word
“My Chemical Romance, “I Don’t Love You” New Order, “Bizarre Love Triangle” Coheed and Cambria, “The Afterman” U2, “Ordinary Love” Coheed and Cambria, “Pearl of the Stars” Tears for Fears, “Woman in Chains” (with Oleta Adams) U2, “Every Breaking Wave” The Arcadian Project, “Hey There, Pretty Girl” Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” Everything But The Girl, “I Don’t Understand Anything” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Fifth Day” Gnarls Barkley, “Smiley Faces” The Airborne Toxic Event, “This Is London” My Chemical Romance, “Planetary (GO!)” U2, “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Way Home” Coldplay, “Fix You” The Strokes, “Reptilia” Simple Minds, “When Two Worlds Collide” The Smashing Pumpkins, “1979” The Arcadian Project, “The Windmill” Leonard Cohen, “Anthem” My Chemical Romance, “The Only Hope for Me Is You” Heaven 17, “Let Me Go” (extended version) Our Last Night, “Skyfall” My Chemical Romance, “The Kids from Yesterday” The Airborne Toxic Event, “The Graveyard near the House” Green Day, “Troublemaker” James Taylor, “Carolina in My Mind” Simple Minds, “Waterfront” Muse, “Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)” U2, “Kite” The Arcadian Project, “The Disappearance Symphony: One Last Question” ― Barbara Claypole White, The Perfect Son
“Up and down lost all meaning. Her world became a violent tumble-dryer, an endless, crashing kaleidoscope.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Excuses are poison,” Ed repeated. “Doing the right thing is hard. Talking yourself out of it is easy.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“You’re the sum of every trait I’ve ever hated in a human being.” ― Taylor Adams, No Exit
“Khloe Kinsella, Lexa Reed, Cole Harris, Drew Adams, Taylor Frost, Carina Johansson, Clare Bryant, Brielle Monaco, Zack Reynolds, Garret van Camp” ― Jessica Burkhart, Famous
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