Philosophical literature
Santayana, George. Dialogues in Limbo. Constable and Co. Ltd., 1925, ch. 5.
Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2011, bk. 1, introduction. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
Russell, Bertrand. "The Recrudescence of Puritanism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.
Zamyatin, Yevgeny. "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters." A Soviet Heretic, translated by Mirra Ginsburg. University of Chicago Press, 1970. Originally published in 1923.
Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Basic Books, 1974, preface.
Berlin, Isaiah. "The Philosophical Ideas of Giambattista Vico." Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas. Viking Press/Hogarth, 1976, pt. 1.
Dewey, John. The Public and Its Problems. H. Holt and Company, 1927, ch. 3.
Berlin, Isaiah. The Hedgehog and the Fox. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953, ch. 1.
Clifford, William Kingdon. "The Ethics of Belief." Contemporary Review, 1877.
Clifford, William Kingdon. "The Ethics of Belief." The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays. Prometheus, 1999.
Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 91.
Huainanzi. c. 139 BC, essay 2, sect. 7.
The Huainanzi, edited and translated by John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, et. al. Columbia University Press, 2010, essay 2, sect. 7.
Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. London: T. Payne, 1789, ch. 1.
Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Dover Publications, 2007, ch. 1.
Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy. Henry Holt and Company/Williams and Norgate, 1912, ch. 15.
Strauss, Leo. On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero. The Free Press, 1948.
Watts, Alan. Become What You Are. Shambhala, 1995.
Peter, Laurence J. The Peter Principle. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1969, ch. 1.
Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2011, bk. 1, ch. 10. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
Diderot, Denis. Le Neveu de Rameau, ou La Satire seconde [The Nephew of Rameau, or the Second Satire]. 1805 (German); 1891 (original French manuscript).
Diderot, Denis. "Rameau's Nephew." Rameau's Nephew and Other Works, translated by Jacques Barzun and Ralph H. Bowen. Hackett Publishing Company, 2001.