Quote of the day
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
G. E. M. Anscombe

Born: March 18, 1919
Died: January 5, 2001 (aged 81)
Bio: Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, usually cited as G. E. M. Anscombe, was a British analytic philosopher. She wrote on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and ethics.
Known for:
- Human life, action and ethics
- Ethics, religion, and politics (1981)
- An introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (1959)