Quote of the day
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Robert B. Pippin

Born: September 14, 1948 (age 76)
Bio: Robert Buford Pippin is an American philosopher. He is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.
Known for:
- Modernism as a philosophical problem (1991)
- Hegel's idealism (1989)
- Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (2010)