Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Ask Meditations a question and hear it answer in its own voice. Put your problem to Marcus Aurelius — anger, fear…
c. AD 170–180
The Library
The Library
Every book you can talk to — philosophy, strategy, scripture and the classics, each one answerable in its own voice.
Philosophy
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Ask Seneca a question and hear it answered in his own voice. Time, money, grief, fear, the friends who drain you …
c. AD 65
The Enchiridion
Epictetus
Fifty-three short rules for living, written down by a former slave. Ask Epictetus what you actually control — and what…
c. AD 125
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ask Nietzsche's strangest book about meaning, comfort, mediocrity and what you'd become if you stopped waiting for…
1883–1885
Discourses
Epictetus
The full record of Epictetus teaching, argued out at length. Ask him about freedom, fear, other people's opinions and…
c. AD 108
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
Seneca's argument that life isn't short — you just spend it badly. Ask it where your time is actually going and what…
c. AD 49
The Analects
Confucius
Ask Confucius about character, family, learning and how to conduct yourself. Short exchanges on what it means to be a…
c. 475 BC
The Republic
Plato
Ask The Republic what justice actually is, whether you'd be good if nobody could see you, and why you might prefer the…
c. 375 BC
Spirituality & Mindfulness
Tao Te Ching
Laozi
Eighty-one short chapters on yielding, restraint and doing less. Ask the Tao Te Ching about ambition, force, and what…
c. 400 BC
The Bible (King James Version)
Various
Ask the King James Bible a question and hear it answered in its own voice. Suffering, forgiveness, doubt, guidance …
1611 (translation)
Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa
A conversation on a battlefield about duty, doubt and doing the right thing when every option costs something. Ask the…
c. 200 BC
The Dhammapada
Attributed to the Buddha
Four hundred and twenty-three verses on mind, craving, anger and letting go. Ask the Dhammapada what to do with the…
c. 300 BC
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Twenty-six meditations on love, marriage, children, work and grief. Ask The Prophet about the thing you're carrying …
1923
Business & Strategy
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Bring it a rival, a negotiation, a fight you can't win head-on. Ask The Art of War how to position yourself — and when…
c. 500 BC
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Ask The Prince about power, reputation, rivals and the gap between how people should behave and how they do. Cold…
1513, published 1532
Personal Development
As a Man Thinketh
James Allen
Twenty pages that shaped a century of self-help. Ask it about your circumstances, your habits, and the thoughts you…
1903
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Ask Walden what you're actually working for. Two years in a cabin, on simplicity, money, work and how much of your life…
1854
Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ask Self-Reliance about conformity, other people's opinions, and the ideas you abandoned because they were yours.…
1841
The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
The oldest personal finance advice still in print, told as parables. Ask it about saving, debt, and why your income…
1926
The Science of Getting Rich
Wallace D. Wattles
The 1910 book behind a century of manifestation literature. Ask it about wanting more, acting on it, and where its…
1910
Psychology & Behavior
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ask the greatest novel ever written about guilt what to do with yours. Conscience, isolation, the theories we build to…
1866