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• History is bunk. -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
  -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World...
• The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong.
  The next most distressing thing is to be proved right....
• Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley
• The only completely consistent people are the dead. -- Aldous Huxley
• I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view.
  We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation....
• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -- Aldous Huxley
• The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous.
  Those who crusade, not _for_ God in themselves, but _against_ the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began....
• The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
  -- Earl Warren That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach....