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).
Raphael Patai

Born: November 22, 1910
Died: July 20, 1996 (aged 85)
Bio: Raphael Patai , born Ervin György Patai, was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist.
Known for:
- The Arab Mind (1973)
- The Hebrew Goddess (1967)
- The Jewish Mind (1977)
- The Jewish Alchemists (1994)
- Messiah Texts (1979)