Timeless Philosophy

The oldest and most enduring questions about how to live, what to believe, and what justice demands. These books have shaped civilizations.

49 books · sorted by Lindy score
1

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

49k

2

The Republic

Plato

24k

3

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca

20k

4

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

17k

5

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

16k

6

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

9.3k

7

Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

7.9k

8

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

6.9k

9

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

6.8k

10

Holy Bible

Esv

5.8k

11

Lying

Sam Harris

5.6k

12

Waking Up

Sam Harris

4.3k

13

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

4.3k

14

The Discourses of Epictetus

Epictetus

4.2k

15

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

Donald Robertson

4.2k

16

A History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

3.8k

17

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

3.2k

18

The Flight of the Garuda

Keith Dowman

3.0k

19

The Last Word

Thomas Nagel

3.0k

20

The Way of the Superior Man

David Deida

2.9k

21

The Elements of Moral Philosophy

James Rachels

2.8k

22

Stoic Warriors

Nancy Sherman

2.8k

23

The Art of Living

Epictetus

2.8k

24

How to Keep Your Cool

Seneca

2.8k

25

Philosophy as a way of life

Pierre Hadot

2.8k

26

How to Think about God

Cicero

2.8k

27

Hercules

Seneca the Younger

2.8k

28

Summa Theologica

Thomas Aquinas

2.8k

29

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche

2.8k

30

A philosophical treatise concerning the weakness of human understanding

Pierre-Daniel Huet

2.8k

31

Confessions of a philosopher

Bryan Magee

2.8k

32

The Story of Philosophy

Will Durant

2.8k

33

The Tao of Philosophy

Alan Watts

2.8k

34

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell

2.8k

35

Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes

2.8k

36

The Cynic philosophers

Emperor Julian

2.8k

37

Transcendental Meditation

Robert Roth

2.8k

38

Loving What Is

Byron Katie

2.8k

39

The Bhagavad Gita

Eknath Easwaran

2.7k

40

Justice

Michael J. Sandel

2.6k