| John Locke: | From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
| Edmund Burke: | From Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Charles Lyell: | From Principles of Geology |
| Charles Dickens: | From Hard Times |
| Karl Marx: | From The Communist Manifesto |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky: | From The Brothers Karamazov |
| John Stuart Mill: | From Utilitarianism |
| Victor Hugo: | From Les Miserables |
| Friedrich Nietzsche: | From Beyond Good and Evil |
| | From Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
| Sigmund Freud: | "The Future of an Illusion" |
| V. I. Lenin: | From The State and Religion |
| Martin Heidegger: | "What is Metaphysics?" |
| Jean-Paul Sartre: | "The Wall" |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn: | From A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |