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"Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past.

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"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."

For in the last analysis it is human consciousness which is the subject matter of history.

"There is no true understanding without a certain range of comparison."

"The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines."

"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavour toward better understanding."

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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