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What nonfiction book is like a Bible to you? Something you find yourself constantly flipping through and rereading passages over the years?

>> No.17883547

the bible

>> No.17883563

Plotinus - Enneads
Marsilio Ficino - Platonic Theology
Daniello Bartoli - History of the Society of Jesus
Giacomo Leopardi - Zibaldone

>> No.17883603

>>17883519
Hume's Treatise, Kant's Critique, and the entire Mormon canon.

>> No.17883789
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>>17883519
The Decline of the West. Even as I drift further away from it as time goes on.

>> No.17884024

>>17883519
>What nonfiction book is like a Bible to you?
You already posted it.

>> No.17884028

>>17883547
fpbp

>> No.17884673

>>17883519
The Gathas, but I tend to cycle through different translations.

>> No.17884685

>>17883519
christs samurai

>> No.17884716

>>17883519
The bible

>> No.17884786

>>17883519
Why do you keep coming back to Schopenhauer? Are you just trying to flesh out your understanding? I find that generally a work of philosophy is narrow in its aim

>> No.17885574
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>>17883519
it's a reference book that is just a collection of articles, poems, diaries etc on other races. Stuff ranging from the corrupting influence of muhamadeen coffee on the european to how the scottish are beastial animalistic savages

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>> No.17885607

Summa Theologica

>> No.17885624

I want to read schopenhauer so badly but i gotta slog through the greeks and kant and ufkcnig g osls piece of shit i dont have the patience for this i think

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>>17883519
My diary desu

>> No.17885699

>>17883519
before i get slated for muh elceleb but isn't this the next book pewdiepie is doing a video about?

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>>17885699
>Mfw when trying to ignore and avoid all eceleb shit because I cant stand those narcissic hypocritical manipulators, but ecelebs are just so powerful they keep pushing themselves in my life
Anon I...

>> No.17885836

>>17883789
>Even as I drift further away from it as time goes on.
How so?

>> No.17885845

>>17883519
Das Kapital

>> No.17885926

>>17885828
If it gets more people to read it's a good thing tho right?

>> No.17886221

The Bible.

>> No.17887068

>>17885699
Fuck me why does this retard have to ruin everything good. People are going to think we're Fortnite zoomers

>> No.17887149

>>17883547
He said nonfiction.

>> No.17887597

>>17883519
You are a homosexual

>> No.17888307
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>>17883519
Ullmann's Encyclopedia (sic) of Industrial Chemistry

>> No.17888314

>>17883519
Digaya Nikaya, Majjhima Nikaya, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>> No.17888366

>>17885699
God please no.

>> No.17888371

>>17883563
>Plotinus - Enneads
>Marsilio Ficino - Platonic Theology
Based Christian Platonist. Ficino is Kino.

>> No.17888376

>>17885926
Schopenhauer is a philosopher who is very easy to misunderstand. Even the threads on /lit/ discussing him are usually shit. If normalfags start to read him there will be no hope.

>> No.17888386

>>17885926
Why would it be a good thing?

>> No.17888495

>>17883563
>Daniello Bartoli - History of the Society of Jesus
what's that?

>> No.17890011

>>17888495
It's an enormous, majestic history of the Society of Jesus (what the title says) told like a novel from the Age of Exploration, with lots of digressions in a wonderful baroque Italian.

>> No.17890017

Meditations

>> No.17890067

>>17883519
The Unique and Its Property, and its follow ups
The Sayings of Laymen P'ang , The Platform Sutra
Thus Zarathustra Speak
The Book of Ecclesiastes