Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Alan Ryan

Born: May 9, 1940 (age 84)
Bio: Alan James Ryan was Warden of New College, Oxford, and Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and is currently a lecturer at Princeton University.
Known for:
- The Making of Modern Liberalism (2012)
- John Dewey (1995)
- The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (1970)
- Bertrand Russell (1981)
- The philosophy of the social sciences (1970)