Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Titus Burckhardt

Born: October 24, 1908
Died: January 15, 1984 (aged 75)
Bio: Titus Burckhardt, a German Swiss, was born in Florence, Italy in 1908 and died in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1984. He devoted all his life to the study and exposition of the different aspects of Wisdom tradition.
Known for:
- An Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (1959)
- Fez, city of Islam
- Mystical Astrology According to Ibn 'Arabi (1977)
- Mirror of the Intellect







