Personal Philosophy
Thinkers and life stories that offer a full answer to how to live, from Man’s Search for Meaning to The Prophet. Listen, compare their views and shape your own.
Personal Philosophy Library

Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

Being and Time

Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology

Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

Becoming Beauvoir: A Life

Be Water, My Friend

At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails

Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is

Existentialism Is a Humanism

Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live

Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World

Greenlights

Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from Sixty Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Live a Life of the Mind

How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

How Should We Live?: Great Ideas from the Past for Everyday Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Into the Wild

Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most

Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Mortality

Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life

No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required

Self-Reliance: Philosophy)

Status Anxiety

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime

The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

The Conquest of Happiness

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors

The Last Lecture

The Myth of Sisyphus

The Wisdom of Life

The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson