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Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.27 — 386,522 ratings — published 180
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.36 — 947,735 ratings — published 1946
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,299 ratings — published 2008
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.32 — 62,257 ratings — published 64
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.23 — 39,359 ratings — published 125
Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,637 ratings — published 1981
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,833 ratings — published 1580
The Consolations of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.01 — 35,441 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Happiness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,873 ratings — published -300
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.90 — 164,819 ratings — published 2013
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,915 ratings — published 49
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,116 ratings — published 2018
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.90 — 278,979 ratings — published 2018
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,659 ratings — published 1645
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.36 — 55,443 ratings — published 2016
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,436 ratings — published 1647
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.97 — 626 ratings — published 150
Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,338 ratings — published -501
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.15 — 105,612 ratings — published 2014
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,651 ratings — published 2007
How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,092 ratings — published
How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,696 ratings — published 2018
Deficiencies and Propensities of the Human Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,448 ratings — published 1970
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.37 — 77,847 ratings — published 2020
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,156 ratings — published 2002
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,376 ratings — published 2009
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.49 — 228,259 ratings — published 2014
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,616 ratings — published 2017
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,498,104 ratings — published 2016
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.15 — 200,715 ratings — published 2016
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.33 — 230,542 ratings — published 2016
Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,090 ratings — published 1844
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,551 ratings — published 1951
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,457 ratings — published 1997
Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,387 ratings — published 2012
The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,429 ratings — published 1992
Discourses and Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.39 — 13,383 ratings — published 108
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,222 ratings — published 2010
Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,375 ratings — published 1836
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 46,978 ratings — published 2006
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 39,056 ratings — published 2012
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.29 — 189,190 ratings — published -350
Discursos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,700 ratings — published 108
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,123 ratings — published 2012
The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,181 ratings — published 2016
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.01 — 63,867 ratings — published -350
The Practice of Not Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.33 — 3,176 ratings — published 2013
Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,201 ratings — published 60
Butterflies: Reflections, Tales, and Verse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as practical-philosophy)
avg rating 3.99 — 42 ratings — published
“The 'practical' man... is one who recognizes only material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind.”
― The Problems of Philosophy
― The Problems of Philosophy
“He is capable of turning everything into anything--snow into skin, skin into blossoms, blossoms into sugar, sugar into powder, and powder back into little drifts of snow--for all that matters to him, apparently, is to make things into what they are not, which is doubtless proof that he cannot stand being anywhere for long, wherever he happens to be.”
― The Man Without Qualities
― The Man Without Qualities
