On power penguin, p.8
On Power (Penguin),
p.8
As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel,
For well thou know’st to my dear doting heart
Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold,
Thy face hath not the power to make love groan.
To say they err I dare not be so bold,
Although I swear it to myself alone;
And to be sure that is not false I swear
A thousand groans but thinking on thy face,
One on another’s neck do witness bear
Thy black is fairest in my judgement’s place.
In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds,
And thence this slander as I think proceeds.
Seneca On the Shortness of Life
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
St Augustine Confessions of a Sinner
Thomas à Kempis The Inner Life
Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince
Michel de Montaigne On Friendship
Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub
Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract
Edward Gibbon The Christians and the Fall of Rome
Thomas Paine Common Sense
Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
William Hazlitt On the Pleasure of Hating
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto
Arthur Schopenhauer On the Suffering of the World
John Ruskin On Art and Life
Charles Darwin On Natural Selection
Friedrich Nietzsche Why I am So Wise
Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own
Sigmund Freud Civilization and Its Discontents
George Orwell Why I Write
Confucius The First Ten Books
Sun-tzu The Art of War
Plato The Symposium
Lucretius Sensation and Sex
Cicero An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom
The Revelation of St John the Divine and The Book of Job
Marco Polo Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan
Christine de Pizan The City of Ladies
Baldesar Castiglione How to Achieve True Greatness
Francis Bacon Of Empire
Thomas Hobbes Of Man
Sir Thomas Browne Urne-Burial
Voltaire Miracles and Idolatry
David Hume On Suicide
Carl von Clausewitz On the Nature of War
Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling
Henry David Thoreau Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Thorstein Veblen Conspicuous Consumption
Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus
Hannah Arendt Eichmann and the Holocaust
Plutarch In Consolation to his Wife
Robert Burton Some Anatomies of Melancholy
Blaise Pascal Human Happiness
Adam Smith The Invisible Hand
Edmund Burke The Evils of Revolution
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
Søren Kierkegaard The Sickness unto Death
John Ruskin The Lamp of Memory
Friedrich Nietzsche Man Alone with Himself
Leo Tolstoy A Confession
William Morris Useful Work v. Useless Toil
Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Marcel Proust Days of Reading
Leon Trotsky An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe
Sigmund Freud The Future of an Illusion
Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
George Orwell Books v. Cigarettes
Albert Camus The Fastidious Assassins
Frantz Fanon Concerning Violence
Michel Foucault The Spectacle of the Scaffold
Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching
Writings from the Zen Masters
Thomas More Utopia
Michel de Montaigne On Solitude
William Shakespeare On Power
John Locke Of the Abuse of Words
Samuel Johnson Consolation in the Face of Death
Immanuel Kant An Answer to the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’
Joseph de Maistre The Executioner
Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Arthur Schopenhauer The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address
Karl Marx Revolution and War
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Grand Inquisitor
William James On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
Robert Louis Stevenson An Apology for Idlers
W. E. B. Du Bois Of the Dawn of Freedom
Virginia Woolf Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
George Orwell Decline of the English Murder
John Berger Why Look at Animals?
William Shakespeare, On Power (Penguin)
