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22 quotes by Albert J. Nock

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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge;... →

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The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is... →

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Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his... →

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Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

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I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal... →

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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this... →

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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout... →

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The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history... →

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Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

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As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a... →

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