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"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience" - Ralph Waldo EmersonAn artfully illustrated book of poetry, excerpts, and musings from the writ...

"One who has a why can bear almost any how" - Nietzsche From The Twilight of the Idols: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer First: How awesome is...

"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot From her novel Adam Bede. SPECIAL OFFERAny 3 prints for $48 (regularly ...

"Invention does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley From the introduction to her novel Frankenstein. We respo...

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars a...

It's quarterly mystery pack time! WHAT'S IN IT?Six Obvious State goods in a subscriber-only mystery pack. Each item is an original Obvious State g...

"Run mad as often as you choose" - Jane Austen Everyone needs to cut loose once in a while, to throw off the restraints (in this case, some seriou...

"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. " - Jane Austen This oft-quoted line comes from Northa...

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The final line of The Great Gatsby, the Fi...

"Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather From her novel The Song of the Lark. In our illustration, an ocean scene i...

Walt Whitman's visionary manifesto, visually reimagined. Carefully culled to about one third of its original length, this unique version provides t...

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's extraordinary poetry at its most intimate.  It ne...

"Strive to know yourself, for it is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Cervantes From the extraordinary Don Quixote.  The maxim "know thys...

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." - William Shakespeare From Act IV of The Tempest, this line...

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." - Marcel Proust   Some observations are so astute that once you re...

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, a runner endures hards...

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran Gibran's The Prophet is one ...

"There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow." - William Shakespeare From the final act of Hamlet. The entire quote reads:"Not a whit, we...

"Do I dare disturb the universe?" - T. S. EliotEliot’s timeless modernist masterpiece visually reimagined. This unique illustrated edition explores...

The Meditations has long been revered as a cornerstone of Stoic philosophy. However, because it was his personal journal, its prose is dense and un...

Edgar Allan Poe’s masterful macabre poem, visually reimagined. This fully illustrated edition brings Poe’s exquisite words to life, exploring the s...

"The sea is big and old." - Ernest Hemingway Too simple for your taste? Perhaps he should have gone with "the sea is boundless and ancient," or "t...