“The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.”
— Albert J. Nock
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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.”
— Albert J. Nock
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“Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.”
— Albert J. Nock
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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 soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?”
— Albert J. Nock
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“The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.”
— Albert J. Nock
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“The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.”
— Albert J. Nock
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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 failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.”
— Albert J. Nock
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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 originated in any other manner.”
— Albert J. Nock
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Category: history
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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.”
— Albert J. Nock
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Category: knowledge
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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; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will – are all gone.”
— Albert J. Nock
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“Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.”
— Albert J. Nock
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Category: learning
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