Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
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