Albert J. Nock Quotes & Sayings
22 most famous Albert J. Nock quotes and sayings (philosopher). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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 right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.”
“The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.”
“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.”
“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.”
“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 failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.”
“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 and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.”
“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; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.”
“The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.”
“Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.”
“Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.”
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