Favorites

I love a good challenge. In fact, the things I love most deeply are the ones that challenge me the most. The highest forms of man's achievement are at the same time beautiful, mysterious and challenging — these are my favorites.

Literature

• Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu
• Fragments - Heraclitus
• On Nature - Parmenides
• Symposium - Plato
• The Enchiridion - Epictetus
• The Gospel of Thomas - Didymos Judas Thomas
• Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
• Discourse on Method - René Descartes
• Second Treatise of Government - John Locke
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
• On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
• The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer
• Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Fydor Dostoevsky
• Notes from Underground - Fydor Dostoevsky
• The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
• Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town - E.E. Cummings
• The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• The Book: On the Taboo of Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia - Robert Nozick

Music

• Thomas Tallis
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Ottorino Respighi
• Jean Sibelius
• Gustav Holst
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Sergei Prokofiev
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Alan Hovhaness
• Steve Reich
• Philip Glass
• John Coolidge Adams
• John Luther Adams
• Danny Elfman
• Thomas Newman

Art

• Donato di Niccoló di Betto Bardi (Donatello)
• Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Michelangelo)
• Raphael Sanzio
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Antonio Allegri da Correggio
• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Caravaggio)
• Claude Lorrain
• J. M. William Turner
• Théodore Rousseau
• Georges Braque
• Marcel Duchamp
• Paul Klee
• Kazimir Malevich
• Josef Albers
• Piet Mondrian
• Yaacov Agam

You too?

If you enjoy a number of these items as well or if you have any good recommendations for me, by all means let me know.