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The Stacks

Every page in the library and how deep it goes. Each page has a word-count target — at least three thousand words, ten thousand for the giants. The bars fill as the essays grow.

354pages
313,778words
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23hours of reading
SectionPagesAt depthWords
Thinkers & Authors1220159,121
Works850102,011
Ideas36012,058
Schools & Movements32030,109
Debates80351
Characters1901,949
Great Scenes2203,518
Themes160951
Great Questions140561
  1. David Hume Thinker 9,421 / 10,000
  2. Plato Thinker 8,188 / 10,000
  3. Immanuel Kant Thinker 7,605 / 10,000
  4. Aristotle Thinker 7,528 / 10,000
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche Thinker 7,377 / 10,000
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky Thinker 6,353 / 9,000
  7. Tao Te Ching Work 5,323 / 8,000
  8. The Republic Work 5,101 / 9,000
  9. Thomas Aquinas Thinker 4,878 / 9,000
  10. King Lear Work 4,437 / 6,000
  11. The Ṛg Veda Work 4,101 / 8,000
  12. The Divine Comedy Work 4,048 / 6,000
  13. Socrates Thinker 4,034 / 6,000
  14. Gautama Buddha Thinker 4,023 / 6,000
  15. Hamlet Work 3,951 / 6,000
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Thinker 3,783 / 8,000
  17. The Bhagavad Gītā Work 3,714 / 8,000
  18. René Descartes Thinker 3,673 / 6,000
  19. The Odyssey Work 3,604 / 5,000
  20. The Iliad Work 3,581 / 5,000
  21. Søren Kierkegaard Thinker 3,487 / 6,000
  22. Ādi Śaṅkara Thinker 3,439 / 6,000
  23. The Mahābhārata Work 3,382 / 8,000
  24. Thus Spoke Zarathustra Work 3,379 / 6,000
  25. On the Genealogy of Morality Work 3,312 / 6,000
  26. William Shakespeare Thinker 3,276 / 6,000
  27. Ludwig Wittgenstein Thinker 3,215 / 6,000
  28. Buddhism School 3,210 / 8,000
  29. Crime and Punishment Work 3,117 / 6,000
  30. Baruch Spinoza Thinker 3,072 / 6,000
  31. Albert Camus Thinker 2,970 / 6,000
  32. Don Quixote Work 2,867 / 5,000
  33. Mahatma Gandhi Thinker 2,864 / 8,000
  34. The Brothers Karamazov Work 2,794 / 7,000
  35. Arthur Schopenhauer Thinker 2,716 / 6,000
  36. Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad Work 2,666 / 5,000
  37. Faust Work 2,627 / 5,000
  38. The Rāmāyaṇa Work 2,565 / 7,000
  39. Jainism School 2,554 / 7,000
  40. Notes from Underground Work 2,454 / 6,000
  41. Oedipus the King Work 2,427 / 4,000
  42. The Trial Work 2,378 / 6,000
  43. Anton Chekhov Thinker 2,375 / 6,000
  44. Chāndogya Upaniṣad Work 2,341 / 4,500
  45. Advaita Vedānta School 2,313 / 7,000
  46. B. R. Ambedkar Thinker 2,292 / 8,000
  47. Nyāya School 2,249 / 6,000
  48. The Upaniṣads Work 2,212 / 7,000
  49. Martin Heidegger Thinker 2,182 / 6,000
  50. John Milton Thinker 2,169 / 6,000
  51. Jean-Paul Sartre Thinker 2,165 / 6,000
  52. Antigone Work 2,154 / 3,500
  53. Simone de Beauvoir Thinker 2,050 / 6,000
  54. Sāṃkhya School 1,959 / 5,000
  55. Dharma Idea 1,930 / 5,000
  56. The Bhakti Movement School 1,863 / 7,000
  57. Homer Thinker 1,837 / 4,000
  58. Samuel Beckett Thinker 1,736 / 5,000
  59. Karma Idea 1,721 / 4,000
  60. Mahāvīra Thinker 1,672 / 4,000
  61. Yoga (darśana) School 1,669 / 5,000
  62. Cārvāka (Lokāyata) School 1,656 / 4,000
  63. Kaṭha Upaniṣad Work 1,646 / 4,000
  64. Confucius Thinker 1,577 / 3,000
  65. The Yoga Sūtras Work 1,546 / 4,500
  66. The Recognition of Śakuntalā Work 1,470 / 4,000
  67. Mīmāṃsā School 1,469 / 4,500
  68. Vedānta School 1,449 / 5,000
  69. Rāmānuja Thinker 1,415 / 5,000
  70. Viśiṣṭādvaita School 1,391 / 4,500
  71. Zhuangzi Thinker 1,323 / 3,000
  72. Kālidāsa Thinker 1,299 / 5,000
  73. Aśoka Thinker 1,295 / 4,000
  74. Rabindranath Tagore Thinker 1,295 / 6,000
  75. Yājñavalkya Thinker 1,238 / 3,500
  76. Nāgārjuna Thinker 1,234 / 4,000
  77. Kabīr Thinker 1,201 / 3,500
  78. Swami Vivekananda Thinker 1,121 / 4,500
  79. Laozi Thinker 1,107 / 3,000
  80. Vaiśeṣika School 1,081 / 4,000
  81. Kashmir Śaivism School 1,077 / 4,500
  82. Madhyamaka School 1,032 / 3,500
  83. Niccolò Machiavelli Thinker 1,007 / 3,000
  84. Mokṣa Idea 980 / 3,500
  85. Dante Alighieri Thinker 979 / 4,000
  86. Anattā (No-Self) Idea 977 / 2,500
  87. Sāṃkhya Kārikā Work 967 / 3,000
  88. Dvaita Vedānta School 959 / 4,000
  89. Guru Nānak Thinker 930 / 3,500
  90. Stoicism School 930 / 3,000
  91. Saṃsāra Idea 918 / 3,000
  92. Abhinavagupta Thinker 913 / 4,000
  93. Sophocles Thinker 899 / 3,000
  94. The Manusmṛti Work 880 / 3,500
  95. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thinker 860 / 3,500
  96. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thinker 838 / 3,000
  97. Seneca Thinker 834 / 3,000
  98. Brahma Sūtras Work 818 / 3,500
  99. Blaise Pascal Thinker 813 / 3,000
  100. Yogācāra School 805 / 3,500
  101. Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Work 798 / 3,000
  102. Michel de Montaigne Thinker 795 / 3,000
  103. Uddālaka Āruṇi Thinker 795 / 2,500
  104. Epictetus Thinker 792 / 3,000
  105. Kauṭilya (Cāṇakya) Thinker 790 / 3,500
  106. Mīrābāī Thinker 774 / 2,500
  107. Anekāntavāda Idea 732 / 2,500
  108. Annihilation of Caste Work 729 / 3,000
  109. Rasa Idea 728 / 3,000
  110. The Tirukkuṟaḷ Work 726 / 3,000
  111. The Dhammapada Work 686 / 3,000
  112. The Questions of King Milinda Work 684 / 2,500
  113. Īśā Upaniṣad Work 682 / 2,000
  114. Taittirīya Upaniṣad Work 682 / 2,000
  115. Kapila Thinker 674 / 2,000
  116. The Arthaśāstra Work 669 / 3,500
  117. Marcus Aurelius Thinker 668 / 3,000
  118. Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) Thinker 656 / 3,000
  119. Patañjali Thinker 656 / 2,500
  120. Pāṇini Thinker 648 / 3,000
  121. Theravāda and the Abhidharma School 646 / 3,500
  122. Gauḍapāda Thinker 642 / 2,000
  123. Rāmcaritmānas Work 642 / 3,500
  124. The Nyāya Sūtras Work 633 / 2,500
  125. Madhva Thinker 617 / 2,500
  126. Dharmakīrti Thinker 616 / 2,000
  127. Hind Swaraj Work 614 / 3,000
  128. Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad Work 611 / 2,000
  129. Vasubandhu Thinker 601 / 2,500
  130. Bhartṛhari Thinker 596 / 3,000
  131. Śūnyatā (Emptiness) Idea 584 / 2,500
  132. Gārgī Vācaknavī Thinker 581 / 1,500
  133. Confucianism School 573 / 3,000
  134. Udayana Thinker 568 / 2,000
  135. Voltaire Thinker 568 / 3,000
  136. Miguel de Cervantes Thinker 566 / 3,000
  137. Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad Work 564 / 1,800
  138. Basavaṇṇa (Basava) Thinker 557 / 2,500
  139. Kumārila Bhaṭṭa Thinker 542 / 2,000
  140. The Nāṭyaśāstra Work 538 / 3,000
  141. Caitanya Mahāprabhu Thinker 514 / 2,000
  142. Tulsīdās Thinker 510 / 2,500
  143. Kena Upaniṣad Work 509 / 1,500
  144. Al-Ghazālī Thinker 507 / 3,000
  145. The Heart Sūtra Work 507 / 2,000
  146. Gaṅgeśa Upādhyāya Thinker 502 / 2,000
  147. Tattvārtha Sūtra Work 502 / 2,500
  148. Pratītyasamutpāda (Dependent Origination) Idea 501 / 2,500
  149. Dignāga Thinker 497 / 2,000
  150. Sri Aurobindo Thinker 493 / 3,500
  151. Nirvāṇa Idea 490 / 2,500
  152. Ramana Maharshi Thinker 474 / 3,000
  153. Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad Work 453 / 1,800
  154. Gautama Akṣapāda Thinker 439 / 1,500
  155. Averroes (Ibn Rushd) Thinker 430 / 3,000
  156. Sūrdās Thinker 425 / 2,000
  157. The Kāmasūtra Work 423 / 2,500
  158. Jñāneśvar Thinker 415 / 2,000
  159. Gitanjali Work 412 / 2,000
  160. Śāntideva Thinker 403 / 2,000
  161. Kaṇāda Thinker 400 / 1,500
  162. Godān Work 389 / 3,000
  163. Asaṅga Thinker 388 / 1,800
  164. Maitreyī Thinker 383 / 1,200
  165. The Analects Work 378 / 3,000
  166. Saṅgam Poetry Work 359 / 2,500
  167. The Pañcatantra Work 347 / 3,000
  168. Cilappatikāram (The Tale of an Anklet) Work 332 / 2,500
  169. Daoism School 328 / 3,000
  170. Mirza Ghalib Thinker 322 / 3,000
  171. Scholasticism School 310 / 3,000
  172. The Storm on the Heath Scene 309 / 3,000
  173. The Death of Cordelia Scene 306 / 3,000
  174. The Jātakas Work 304 / 2,000
  175. Tukārām Thinker 303 / 2,000
  176. Āṇṭāḷ Thinker 297 / 1,500
  177. Jaimini Thinker 282 / 1,200
  178. Kundakunda Thinker 276 / 1,500
  179. Meghadūta (The Cloud Messenger) Work 274 / 2,000
  180. The Bhāgavata Purāṇa Work 263 / 3,000
  181. King Lear Character 248 / 3,000
  182. The Blinding of Gloucester Scene 240 / 3,000
  183. Hemacandra Thinker 236 / 1,500
  184. Parmenides Thinker 234 / 3,000
  185. The Dover Cliff Scene 232 / 3,000
  186. Tiruvaḷḷuvar Thinker 224 / 2,000
  187. Vālmīki Thinker 222 / 1,500
  188. Lear Wakes: "No Cause, No Cause" Scene 221 / 3,000
  189. Premchand Thinker 220 / 3,000
  190. The Grand Inquisitor Scene 220 / 3,000
  191. Cordelia Character 205 / 3,000
  192. Buddhaghosa Thinker 204 / 1,500
  193. Muhammad Iqbal Thinker 204 / 2,500
  194. Edmund Character 202 / 3,000
  195. Jiddu Krishnamurti Thinker 200 / 2,500
  196. Bādarāyaṇa Thinker 197 / 1,000
  197. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Thinker 195 / 2,500
  198. Gītagovinda Work 192 / 2,000
  199. Synthetic a priori Idea 191 / 3,000
  200. Alas, Poor Yorick Scene 191 / 3,000
  201. Vyāsa Thinker 188 / 1,500
  202. Amīr Khusrau Thinker 185 / 2,000
  203. The Categorical Imperative Idea 184 / 3,000
  204. Lear's Fool Character 183 / 3,000
  205. Aśvaghoṣa Thinker 178 / 1,800
  206. Dayānanda Sarasvatī Thinker 178 / 1,500
  207. The Little Clay Cart Work 177 / 1,500
  208. Rāmānanda Thinker 164 / 1,200
  209. Cogito, ergo sum Idea 163 / 3,000
  210. Nihilism Theme 161 / 3,000
  211. Tat Tvam Asi — Salt in Water Scene 159 / 3,000
  212. To Be, or Not to Be Scene 158 / 3,000
  213. Hamlet Character 157 / 3,000
  214. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Thinker 155 / 2,000
  215. Naciketas at the House of Death Scene 155 / 3,000
  216. Raja Rammohun Roy Thinker 154 / 1,500
  217. Rebellion — Returning the Ticket Scene 153 / 3,000
  218. Critique of Pure Reason Work 152 / 3,000
  219. Lal Ded (Lalleśvarī) Thinker 150 / 1,500
  220. Before the Law Scene 141 / 3,000
  221. The Allegory of the Cave Scene 139 / 3,000
  222. Ivan Karamazov Character 136 / 3,000
  223. The Death of God Idea 134 / 3,000
  224. Hume's Fork Idea 134 / 3,000
  225. What Are the Limits of the Human Mind? Great Question 131 / 3,000
  226. Bharata Muni Thinker 125 / 800
  227. Heraclitus Thinker 121 / 3,000
  228. Eternal Recurrence Idea 120 / 3,000
  229. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Scene 120 / 3,000
  230. Meursault and the Chaplain Scene 118 / 3,000
  231. Ātman is Brahman Idea 117 / 3,000
  232. The Problem of Induction Idea 114 / 3,000
  233. The Thing-in-Itself Idea 114 / 3,000
  234. Will to Power Idea 107 / 3,000
  235. The Underground Man Character 107 / 3,000
  236. Summa Theologiae Work 106 / 3,000
  237. Rodion Raskolnikov Character 104 / 3,000
  238. The Death of Socrates Scene 98 / 3,000
  239. The Universal Form Scene 98 / 3,000
  240. Yevgeny Bazarov Character 97 / 3,000
  241. Leo Tolstoy Thinker 96 / 3,000
  242. Meditations Work 96 / 3,000
  243. Sisyphus at the Foot of the Mountain Scene 96 / 3,000
  244. Abraham on Mount Moriah Scene 95 / 3,000
  245. The Madman with the Lantern Scene 94 / 3,000
  246. Dialectic Idea 93 / 3,000
  247. Jayadeva Thinker 89 / 1,200
  248. Lordship and Bondage Scene 89 / 3,000
  249. Māyā Idea 86 / 3,000
  250. Sonya Reads Lazarus Scene 86 / 3,000
  251. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Thinker 84 / 3,000
  252. The Prince Work 84 / 3,000
  253. Master and Slave Morality Idea 84 / 3,000
  254. Candide Work 83 / 3,000
  255. Existence Precedes Essence Idea 83 / 3,000
  256. John Locke Thinker 82 / 3,000
  257. The Leap of Faith Idea 82 / 3,000
  258. God & Faith Theme 82 / 3,000
  259. Alyosha Karamazov Character 80 / 3,000
  260. Bad Faith Idea 79 / 3,000
  261. Continental Rationalism School 78 / 3,000
  262. The Copernican Revolution Idea 76 / 3,000
  263. Existentialism School 76 / 3,000
  264. Lucretius Thinker 75 / 3,000
  265. Epicurus Thinker 74 / 3,000
  266. British Empiricism School 74 / 3,000
  267. Does God Exist? Great Question 74 / 3,000
  268. The Will Idea 73 / 3,000
  269. Russian Nihilism School 73 / 3,000
  270. The Übermensch Idea 72 / 3,000
  271. Knowledge Theme 72 / 3,000
  272. The Self Theme 72 / 3,000
  273. Pensées Work 71 / 3,000
  274. Anxiety Idea 71 / 3,000
  275. Are We Free? Great Question 71 / 3,000
  276. Franz Kafka Thinker 70 / 3,000
  277. Alexei Kirillov Character 69 / 3,000
  278. The Forms Idea 68 / 3,000
  279. Rationalism vs. Empiricism Debate 68 / 3,000
  280. Augustine of Hippo Thinker 64 / 3,000
  281. The Stranger Work 64 / 3,000
  282. German Idealism School 64 / 3,000
  283. Arjuna Character 61 / 3,000
  284. Gregor Samsa Character 60 / 3,000
  285. The Apology of Socrates Work 59 / 3,000
  286. Nothing from Nothing Idea 58 / 3,000
  287. Reason & Its Limits Theme 58 / 3,000
  288. Suffering & Evil Theme 58 / 3,000
  289. Fate & Necessity Theme 57 / 3,000
  290. The Enlightenment School 55 / 3,000
  291. Death Theme 55 / 3,000
  292. Rational Egoism Idea 54 / 3,000
  293. Is There a Self? Nyāya vs. the Buddhists Debate 54 / 3,000
  294. Ivan Ilyich Golovin Character 53 / 3,000
  295. What Can We Know? Great Question 53 / 3,000
  296. Being Theme 52 / 3,000
  297. Demons Work 51 / 3,000
  298. Dasein Idea 51 / 3,000
  299. Geist (Spirit) Idea 51 / 3,000
  300. Platonism School 51 / 3,000
  301. Freedom Theme 51 / 3,000
  302. The Absurd Theme 50 / 3,000
  303. Tertullian Thinker 49 / 3,000
  304. Sonya Marmeladova Character 48 / 3,000
  305. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Thinker 47 / 3,000
  306. Karl Marx Thinker 47 / 3,000
  307. Faith vs. Reason Debate 47 / 3,000
  308. Morality Theme 47 / 3,000
  309. Nikolai Chernyshevsky Thinker 46 / 3,000
  310. Nothingness Theme 46 / 3,000
  311. Ivan Turgenev Thinker 44 / 3,000
  312. Gandhi vs. Ambedkar Debate 44 / 3,000
  313. Nikolai Stavrogin Character 43 / 3,000
  314. What Is the Meaning of Life? Great Question 42 / 3,000
  315. What Is the Self? — The Indian Argument Great Question 42 / 3,000
  316. The Pre-Socratics School 41 / 3,000
  317. Meursault Character 41 / 3,000
  318. Being vs. Becoming Debate 39 / 3,000
  319. Sartre vs. Camus Debate 39 / 3,000
  320. Eudaimonia Idea 38 / 3,000
  321. Śaṅkara vs. Rāmānuja Debate 38 / 3,000
  322. Guilt & Redemption Theme 36 / 3,000
  323. What Is the Self? Great Question 36 / 3,000
  324. A Confession Work 35 / 3,000
  325. Phenomenology School 35 / 3,000
  326. The Death of Ivan Ilyich Work 34 / 3,000
  327. How Is the Mind Related to the Body? Great Question 34 / 3,000
  328. Rebellion Theme 32 / 3,000
  329. Zarathustra Character 29 / 3,000
  330. The Gay Science Work 27 / 3,000
  331. Phenomenology of Spirit Work 27 / 3,000
  332. Josef K. Character 26 / 3,000
  333. How Should One Act? — Dharma, Karma and Freedom Great Question 25 / 3,000
  334. The Metamorphosis Work 24 / 3,000
  335. What Is Beauty — and What Is Art For? Great Question 24 / 3,000
  336. What Is Justice? Great Question 24 / 3,000
  337. Macbeth Work 23 / 3,000
  338. Critique of Practical Reason Work 22 / 3,000
  339. Epicureanism School 22 / 3,000
  340. Can God Be Proved? Udayana vs. the Mīmāṃsakas and Buddhists Debate 22 / 3,000
  341. Power Theme 22 / 3,000
  342. The Rebel Work 21 / 3,000
  343. Existentialism Is a Humanism Work 20 / 3,000
  344. Absurdism School 17 / 3,000
  345. Fear and Trembling Work 16 / 3,000
  346. The World as Will and Representation Work 15 / 3,000
  347. What Is to Be Done? Work 12 / 3,000
  348. Beyond Good and Evil Work 10 / 3,000
  349. The Myth of Sisyphus Work 8 / 3,000
  350. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Work 8 / 3,000
  351. The Road of Nihilism Great Question 5 / 3,000
  352. Fathers and Sons Work 2 / 3,000
  353. How Should We Face Death? Great Question 0 / 3,000
  354. What Is Time? Great Question 0 / 3,000