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How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali is a major work on the practice of yoga and meditation Through these ancient aphorisms you will learn how to control your mind and achieve inner peace and freedom. Although these methods were taught over 2,000 years ago, they are as alive and effective today as they have ever been. The 2008 edition has been reset and now has an extensive index for reference..
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Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin. He moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times..
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Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
Bestselling expert James Geary’s enlightening, entertaining compendium of wit and wisdom, from Sun Tzu to Desmond Tutu—and 350 aphorists in between Both an expert and a collector, James Geary has devoted his life to aphorisms—and the last few years to organizing, indexing, and even translating them. The result is Geary’s Guide, featuring classic writers like Voltaire, Twain, Shakespeare, and Nietzsche, but also more surprising figures, such as Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, Emily Dickinson, and Mae West. Some of the aphorists appear in English for the first time. But it is more than just a conventional anthology. It is also an encyclopedia, containing brief biographies of each author in addition to a selection of his or her aphorisms. The book is a field guide, too, with aphorists organized into eight different “species,” such as Comics, Critics & Satirists; Icons & Iconoclasts; and Painters & Poets. The book’s two indexes—by author and by subject—make it easily searchable, while its unique organizational structure and Geary’s lively biographical entries make it different from all previous reference works. Geary’s Guide is eminently suitable for browsing or for sustained reading. A comprehensive guide to our most intimate, idiosyncratic literary form, the book is an indispensable tool for writers and public speakers as well as essential reading for all language lovers. .
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Oxford Book of Aphorisms
An aphorism is "a short pithy statement or maxim," but beneath this definition lies a wealth of wit and insight to which neither the word nor a brief description can do justice. This anthology demonstrates just how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be, and just how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence. Specific sections on desires and longings, self-doubt, fame and reputations, happiness and sorrow, cover the whole range of aphoristic literature. This book brings together the most diverse figures--the classic aphorists, like La Rochefoucauld; the philosophers, from the Greeks to Samuel Johnson to Virginia Woolf--as well as statesmen, scientists, boulevardiers, Olympians, and gadflies. John Gross draws on their wisdom and wit to produce an anthology that will be referred to time and time again..
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The Zürau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka
The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso. Illness set him free to write a series of philosophical fragments: some narratives, some single images, some parables. These “aphorisms” appeared, sometimes with a few words changed, in other writings–some of them as posthumous fragments published only after Kafka’s death in 1924. While working on K., his major book on Kafka, in the Bodleian Library, Roberto Calasso realized that the Zürau aphorisms, each written on a separate slip of very thin paper, numbered but unbound, represented something unique in Kafka’s opus–a work whose form he had created simultaneously with its content. The notebooks, freshly translated and laid out as Kafka had intended, are a distillation of Kafka at his most powerful and enigmatic. This lost jewel provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the collective work of a genius..
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Herakleitos and Diogenes
All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of nouns and verbs which can then be inspected at length. here they are translated into plain English and allowed to stand naked and unchaperoned in their native archaic Mediterranean light. The practical words of the Athenian street philosopher Diagenes have never before been extracted from the apochryphal anecdotes in which they have come down to us. They are addressed to humanity at large, and are as sharp and pertinent today as when they were admired by Alexander the Great and Saint Paul..
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The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
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Sticker Nation: The Big Book of Subversive Stickers
OVER 400 STICKERS FOR UNDER $15! Sticker your car! Sticker your office! Sticker your dog! Sticker your life! Sticker your stuff! Sticker your world! Say what your really mean! Sometimes you just want to show the world how you feel BUT you don't know how to do it. Well, this summer The Disinformation Company presents an innovative and creative way to get ideas and messages across. SAY IT WITH STICKERS! Sticker Nation is a jam-packed, collectable book of stickers that is the ONLY cool sticker book for both teens and adults! Created by Srini Kumar of StickerNation.com, this book is filled with over 400 sayings and slogansbig, bold vinyl stickers that peel right out of the bookready to spread your message. From political slogans and anti-establishment sayings, to goofy musings and random thoughts, these stickers are attention grabbing, thought-provoking, and just downright plain fun. - CAPITALISM ISN'T FAIR
- FOX NEWS GET OFF THE AIR
- I THINK, THEREFORE I'M AWESOME
- PRODUCE OR BE CONSUMED
- PUNISH THE PUNDITS
- ADMIT THAT GOTH IS RIDICULOUS
- DO COMPUTERS PRAY?
- TAX THE RICH
- THANK GOD I'M AGNOSTIC
- WHAT DEMOCRACY?
- RELIGION IS DANGEROUS
- CORPORATIONS LIE
- ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
- LINUX IS POWER
- MY GOVERNMENT IS NUTS
- RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE
This big book of subversive stickers makes these cult favorite slogans, and SO MANY MORE (OVER 400!!) available to the general public in a collectible format. Use them, save them, give them away; they are so cheap you can buy multiple copies of the book and still be spending less than buying just a few stickers on their own. .
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