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).
G. E. Moore

Born: November 4, 1873
Died: October 24, 1958 (aged 84)
Bio: George Edward "G. E." Moore was an English philosopher. He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy.
Known for:
- Principia Ethica (1903)
- The Elements of Ethics
- Philosophy of G. E. Moore (1942)
- Ethics and The Nature of Moral Philosophy
- A Defence of Common Sense