Quote of the day
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.
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