Philosophy

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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Charles Babbage


Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal …

Quatrain from the Rubaiyat

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Omar Khayyám


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George K…

Travels by the Fireside

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Travels by the Fireside by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry projec…

Pantheisticon

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John Toland


Pantheisticon: or, the Form Of Celebrating the Socratic-Society. Divided into Three Parts. Which Contain, I. The Morals and Axioms of the Pa…

Ten Days in the Light of Acca

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Julia M. Grundy


This work is the story of a pilgrimage made over a hundred years ago by a group of American pilgrims. They were not headed for Canterbury, R…

Deer Godchild

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Marguerite Bernard and Marguerite Bernardandedith Serrell


A young New-Yorker of twelve heard an appeal for the Fatherless Children of France and his heart was touched. He had no money, but he resolv…

Growing Old

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Matthew Arnold


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Growing Old by Matthew Arnold. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 17, 2011.Mat…

The Prophet (version 5)

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Kahlil Gibran


The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.The poetic prose of Th…

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)

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Omar Khayyám


Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Ruba…

Discovering Buddhism - Wisdom of Emptiness


Ven. Losang Monlam


The wisdom of emptiness is the ultimate teaching in Buddhism; its main tenet is that our suffering is caused by our inability to perceive th…

De Consolatione Philosophiae

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

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Emily Dickinson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for M…

Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher

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Walter Savage Landor


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor. This was the Weekly Poetry projec…

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