"It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both." -Niccolò Machiavelli,   The Prince , 1503 Italian philosopher ...

Friedrich List was one of the most prominent economic philosophers of the 19th century, on a par with-but espousing quite different thinking than-Karl ...

He is considered one of the greatest novelists in any language in all of human history, but many of Leo Tolstoy's works remain obscure today. This short ...

Danish-American mystic and astrologer MAX HEINDEL (1865-1919), developer of the modern teachings of the esoteric Christian philosophy of Rosicrucianism ...

Bertrand Russell was a prolific writer, revolutionizing philosophy and doing extensive work in the study of logic. This, his first book on mathematics ...

The adherents of "New Thought"-a belief system popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that encouraged a proto-New Age brand of self-discovery-vehemently ...

If a young man will look around him a bit, he will find that the most successful men of the day are always the most quiet dressers. Their clothes are never ...

It was by a somewhat singular process of self-restraint that one whose life had been that of a parish minister undertook to treat the themes of religion ...

Oscar Wilde deemed his life "perfect," and described him as a man with "a soul of that beautiful white Christ which seems coming out of Russia." He is ...

[T]he great contributions of the book of Job to the problem of suffering are: (1) A clear and scientific presentation of the problem; (2) a bold sweeping ...