![They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?](/assets/img/quote-photos/they-the-templars-had-read-avicenna-and-they-were-not-ignorant-like-the-europ.jpg)
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