From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. (Aldous Huxley)

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

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