Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Samuel Alexander
Born: January 6, 1859
Died: September 13, 1938 (aged 79)
Bio: Samuel Alexander OM, FBA was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.
Known for:
- Space, time, and deity
- Beauty and other forms of value (1933)
- Spinoza and time (1921)
- Moral Order and Progress (1889)