Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Alan Ryan

Born: May 9, 1940 (age 85)
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)