Selected works by Martin Heidegger
Selected works by Martin Heidegger. Heidegger (1889 – 1976) was a German philosopher widely recognized as one of the most original and important philosophers of the twentieth century and at the same time one of the most controversial. He is considered as the father of existentialism and his thinking has contributed to fields as diverse […]
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli PDF
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli is often referred to as the foundation of political philosophy. Nicolo Machiavelli was born on 3 May 1469 in the Republic of Florence in what is today the middle of Italy. He worked as a senior official in the Florentine Republic. At that time Italy was divided into a large […]
The Decameron or Ten Days’ Entertainment of Boccaccio
The Decameron or Ten Days’ Entertainment of Boccaccio – also sometimes subtitled Prince Gehaut and often named I’Umana Commedia is a collection of short stories by Giovanni Boccaccio. The stories are told within a frame story, much as One Thousand and One Nights. a group of young people has escaped the black death and are […]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel by James Joyce. The book was published in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, but the work had been published from 1914 to 1915 as a serial in the English literary magazine The Egoist. Joyce had difficulties finding a publisher who believed in […]
Sama Veda – PDF English Translation
The Sama Veda or “The song of Knowledge” is one of four Vedas, a group of ancient texts believed to the divine. The Sama Veda has a history of oral transmission for hundreds of years before it was written down in 1200 to 1000 BCE at about the same time as Atharvaveda and the Yajurveda. […]
The Philosophical Works of David Hume VOL I-IV
The Philosophical Works of David Hume is the primary philosophical writings of the Scottish thinker and historian. The works consist of four volumes, you can download them here in full as scanned PDF e-books. These versions are the ones published in June 1825 and therefore includes the two essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul […]
The Book of Jasher
The Book of Jasher is also known as the Book of the Just Man or the Book of the Upright and it is one of the non-canonical books referenced in the Bible. It is mentioned in the Bible the following places in Joshua 10:13: “And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed,until the people had […]
The Complete works of Nostradamus PDF
The Complete works of Nostradamus compiled in one PDF. 1. March 1555 the French scientist, doctor, and astrologist Michel de Nostradamus, better known these days as Nostradamus, sat down and wrote the foreword to his spectacular work Centuria. Centuria means ‘a hundred’, and it might refer to the span of years his prophecies and predictions reach. […]
Fjodor Dostojevskij – complete works
Complete works of Fjodor Dostojevskij as PDF-files. Here is the most complete list you will find on the Internet of Fjodor Dostojevskij’s (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) works as free pdf e-books. The most important main works are here, but I am still searching for a number of short stories, letters and the novels The Landlady, The Adolescent, and the […]
The Philosophy of Mind G.W.F. Hegel
The Philosophy of Mind G.W.F. Hegel also known as The Phenomenology of Mind is hard to read and understand. Some philosophers have tried to summarize Hegel’s book and explain his ideas, but they were often longer than the original, and nearly as difficult to read. The book outlines the evolution of consciousness and how it goes through stages. […]
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun is another not that holy book. However, Hamsun was one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time and his insight into elemental existence and human nature is mindblowing. “Growth of the Soil” is the book that secured him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920, and it […]
Complete works of Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda was the chief disciple of Ramkrishna Paramhamsa (Ramakrishna) and here you can download the entire collection of works written by him. Ramkrishna Paramhamsa’s first spiritual teacher was an ascetic woman skilled in Tantra and Vaishnava bhakti. Later an Advaita Vedantin ascetic taught him non-dual meditation, and according to Ramakrishna, he experienced nirvikalpa samadhi under […]
Ashtavakra Gita – Complete PDF-ebook
The Ashtavakra Gita is an ancient Hindu spiritual document of great purity and power. Pure, because it is relentlessly one-pointed. Every word in this complete and free pdf version of Ashtavakra Gita is aimed at triggering Self-realization -no suggestions for self-improvement, no rules for moral behavior, no practical wisdom for daily life. Powerful, because the mere […]
Siddhartha – an Indian Tale by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha – an Indian Tale by Hermann Hesse is about a son of a Brahman who in his quest for the truth rejects his father’s faith. His way is through asceticism, meeting with the Buddha, love adventures and a secular life until he calms down and finally finds enlightenment. In many ways, the novel is […]
Bhagavad Gita free PDF E-book – three modern translations
Bhagavad Gita has long been recognized as one of the world’s most important spiritual classics and a Hindu guide to all on the path of Truth. The Bhagavad Gita is sometimes known as the Song of the Lord or the Gospel of the Lord Shri Krishna. According to Western scholarship, it was composed later than the […]
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