Quote of the day
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
Louis Althusser
Born: October 16, 1918
Died: October 22, 1990 (aged 72)
Bio: Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
Known for:
- Reading Capital (1968)
- For Marx (1965)
- Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1974)
- Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)
Louis Althusser Quotes