Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Erich Heller

Born: March 27, 1911
Died: November 5, 1990 (aged 79)
Bio: Erich Heller was a British essayist, known particularly for his critical studies in German-language philosophy and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Known for:
- The disinherited mind (1952)
- The importance of Nietzsche (1988)
- Thomas Mann, the ironic German (1958)
- In the age of prose (1984)