Science & Technology audiobooks

100 citations de Confucius

By: Confucius

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

La pensée de Confucius est si forte qu'elle domina la vie intellectuelle de la Chine ancienne pendant des siècles, allant jusqu'à constituer une véritable religion. La Chine abrite encore des temples où Confucius est un véritable dieu, celui de la culture. Ses écrits nous ont été transmis sous forme d'aphorismes, chacun un condensé... Read more

100 quotes by Niccholo Macchiavelli, from "The Prince"

By: Nicolas Machiavel

Narrated by: Jonathan Waite

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde is remembered as one of the wittiest minds ever, thanks to his provocative style and humor. In the 1890s, he was one of London's most popular playwrights; his masterpieces are The Importance of Being Earnest and the dark and fantastical Picture of Dorian Gray. His writings entwine themes of beauty, decadence and duplicity, which made... Read more

100 quotes by Sigmund Freud, creator of psychoanalysis

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Francis Bacon had a tremendous impact on science and philosophy during the scientific revolution in XVIIth-century England. He was the first to argue for a skeptical and methodical approach in science, based on careful observation of events in nature, and founded on induction. His work, firmly grounded in empiricism to prevent projection of... Read more

100 quotes by Confucius: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Confucius

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Sun Tzu was a revered Chinese general, strategist, and philosopher. He is credited with one of the most influential military treatises ever written, The Art of War. Countless leaders have drawn inspiration from this work, from Mao Zedong to General Douglas MacArthur. It is so powerful and straightforward that it is still influencing many domains... Read more

100 citations de Sun Tzu

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sun Tzu : un nom qui a traversé les siècles. Général, stratège, et philosophe, on lui doit le plus célèbre traité militaire de tous les temps : l'Art de la Guerre. Sa pensée a inspiré les plus grandes figures militaires, du général au dictateur, mais aussi de nombreux domaines comme l'entreprenariat, la stratégie commerciale, le contrôle des... Read more

100 citations de Cicéron

By: Cicéron

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus Tullius Cicéron : un des plus grands orateurs ayant jamais existé. Ses talents d'avocat lui permirent d'accéder à la magistrature suprême, fonction normalement réservée à la noblesse ; et la seule énergie de ses discours, les Catilinaires, suffit à déjouer une terrible conjuration qui visait à l'élimination d'une partie de l'élite... Read more

100 citations de Bouddha

By: Bouddha

Narrated by: Patrick Martinez Bournat

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Cent citations de Bouddha pour vous familiariser avec la pensée bouddhiste, inspirer votre vie quotidienne, et vous approcher de l'éveil. Siddharta Gautama était né prince ; dégoûté des illusions matérielles, il parcourut un temps le chemin de l'ascétisme, avant de se rendre compte que la négation du corps n'était qu'une autre des illusions de... Read more

100 quotes by Montaigne: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Michel de Montaigne

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the greatest military figures ever. He rose to prominence during the French Revolution, after which he kept on soaring higher and higher until he was crowned Emperor of the French. He then moved on to gain control of the whole of continental Europe, before the ultimate defeat of 1815. Today, his campaigns are... Read more

100 citations de Voltaire

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Voltaire est un maître de l'ironie et du mot d'esprit. Voilà les armes principales dont ce philosophe des Lumières, dramaturge, scientifique et poète se sert sans relâche dans ses attaques au vitriol contre l'institution catholique, les adversaires de la liberté de culte et d'expression, et de la séparation de l'Eglise et de l'Etat.... Read more

100 quotes by Rousseau: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Mary Prince, who was sold into slavery at the age of 12 for £38 sterling. It is the first account of the life of a black woman ever to be published in the United Kingdom, and it was published at a time when slavery was still legal in the British Colonies. The history of Mary Prince is firsthand testimony of the brutalities... Read more

100 quotes by Voltaire: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The French Declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen is one of the most fundamental documents in the history of democracy. A representative product of the philosophy of the Enlightenment, it holds the rights of man to be universal, without distinction of race or religion, introducing the idea that human rights are a feature of human... Read more

100 quotes by Socrates: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Socrates

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

It is as great an offence against a child to starve his mind as to starve his body. The Astorg Audiobook collection means to bring together the fairy tales, stories, myths and legends which have fed the children of many generations in the years when the imagination is awakening and craving stimulus and material to work upon. We have selected for... Read more

100 quotes by Plato: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Plato

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, or more simply Don Quixote, is one of the most influential works of literature from a Spanish author. It is one of the earliest canonical novels, and is regularly cited as the best work of fiction ever published. A nameless hidalgo read so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and... Read more

100 citations de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

L'homme est naturellement bon ; c'est la société qui le pervertit. On doit cette idée fondamentale à Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosophe, initiateur du genre autobiographique avec les Confessions, penseur politique, écrivain romantique, et même compositeur d'opéra ; une figure majeure de l'âge des Lumières. Ces 100 citations ont été sélectionnées... Read more

Etwas mehr Hirn, bitte

By: Gerald Hüther

Narrated by: Gerald Hüther

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Nur wir Menschen sind in der Lage, unsere Lebenswelt immer besser nach unseren eigenen Vorstellungen zu gestalten. Indem wir uns aber immer perfekter an die so gestaltete Lebenswelt anpassen, verlieren wir allzu leicht auch unsere Fähigkeit, immer wieder nach neuen Wegen zu suchen und dabei aus den eigenen Fehlern zu lernen.Doch: Wir sind frei,... Read more

110 citations pour le bac philo

By: various

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Les meilleurs devoirs au bac philo sont ceux dont la réflexion est structurée, nourrie des pensées des plus grands auteurs. Et pour vraiment faire la différence, il faut utiliser des citations pertinentes. Ce livre audio vous propose 100 citations classées selon les thèmes du programme de philosophie en terminale, et choisies pour vous donner... Read more

100 quotes by Gautama Buddha: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Gautama Buddha

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers who ever lived. He fought all his life against slavery, and is remembered as a national hero for opening up the interior of the so-called "Dark Continent"; his expeditions had a tremendous influence on the colonization of Africa and the relation between... Read more

150 quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. The beautiful Sheherazade, threatened with death, manages to postpone the fatal day by telling one marvellous story every night. The stories themselves are folk tales, fairy tales and... Read more

100 quotes by Immanuel Kant: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Emmanuel Kant

Narrated by: Jonathan Waite

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a wild series of adventures widely acclaimed as "universally read" and highly influential. After a shipwreck, an Englishman discovers new, strange lands, and learns of the customs and governments of their inhabitants. This is an opportunity both for absurd humor and political satire, and the story of... Read more

100 citations de Michel de Montaigne

By: Michel de Montaigne

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Se visiter soi-même plutôt que des contrées lointaines, c'est explorer à la fois le plus proche et le plus mystérieux. Michel de Montaigne décrit son expérience en même temps qu'il se livre à des réflexions amusées ; en nous dévoilant son "humaine condition", il nous fournit un art de vivre sage et agréable. Ces 100 citations de Montaignes ont... Read more

110 quotes from the New Testament

By: JM Gardner

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

What is truth? How can one be true to oneself without knowing what it means? How can one be sure to tell the truth when reality is such a difficult thing to attain? So many philosophers have struggled to define truth, each one of them coming up with enriching ideas that shed light on the concept from as many different angles. We have selected... Read more

100 quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Jonathan Waite

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Mungo Park was an explorer of the real kind. In 1795, only aged 24, he left Gambia for the uncharted interior of Africa, in a journey that would be filled with tragedy, heroism, and adventure. Park was the first European to ever reach the river Niger and the legendary city of Timbuctoo, thus resolving, once and for all, a century-old geographic... Read more

100 citations de Socrate

By: Socrate

Narrated by: Elodie Huber

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Socrate : une figure majeure, aux fondements de toute la philosophie occidentale ; une légende bizarre, qu'on ne connaît qu'à travers les récits des autres ; et surtout, un drôle de philosophe. Sa méthode est simple et directe : pour apprendre à l'autre à penser par lui-même, il faut questionner sans cesse, afin de mettre au jour préjugés,... Read more

100 quotes from the Old Testament

By: JM Gardner

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Pupil of the great Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is a massively influential figure in Western philosophy. Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold". Modern ethics are based on his ideas about virtue; his writings literally encompassed all the scientific knowledge of the time and beyond, so much that many of his... Read more