Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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