Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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)