Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Henry Corbin

Born: April 14, 1903
Died: October 7, 1978 (aged 75)
Bio: Henry Corbin was a philosopher, theologian and professor of Islamic Studies at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, France.
Known for:
- The man of light in Iranian sufism (1978)
- Swedenborg and esoteric Islam
- Avicenna and the visionary recital (1960)
- The voyage and the messenger






