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.
Talal Asad

Born: 1933 (age 92)
Bio: Talal Asad is an anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Known for:
- Formations of the secular (2003)
- Genealogies of religion (1993)
- On Suicide Bombing (2007)
- Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter (1973)