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).
Reuben Abel

Born: 1929
Died: August 8, 1997 (aged 68)
Bio: Reuben Abel was writer and editor of the Humanistic Pragmatist. Abel authored Man is the Measure. Here he discusses many different angles of philosophy on many different, but connected topics.