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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

Topics: Concerning Culture Forgetting Great Learning Many Means Necessary Process Say Them Then Things Would

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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

Topics: Business Enterprise Exist Goes Indispensable Knowledge Noble School Scientific Society Unless Useful

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

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Topics: Diplomacy Like Prince Secrets

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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Any Associate Belief Conscious Existence Found Idea Immortality Kind Lead Life Most Much Perhaps Quality Quality Of Life Reason Us Which

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Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Always Christianity Common Conditioned Correspondence Could Environment Heritage Immortality Life Never Organized Same See Should Sort Spiritual Spiritual Life Terms Why

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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

Topics: Appropriate Assuming Before Body Conditions Die Distinct Does His Knowing Man Might Nature Should Soul Spiritual Thought Unnatural Why Without

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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 the modern world at the expense of culture.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Always Been Culture Established Expense Forgetting Itself Learning Made Modern Modern World Much Pedantry Pretty Therefore Throughout Well World

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Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Any Because Common Error Kind Knowledge Largely Learning May Pedantry Perhaps Remembered Should Thinking Too Useful Worth

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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 enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Apparently Business Conservation Enterprise Exist Fails Goes Indispensable Itself Knowledge Noble Only See Society University Unless Useless Useless Knowledge Well

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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

Topics: Cargo Gone He Higher Him His History Knowledge Languages Life Lost Mathematics Much Obliged Only Original Remember Useful Useless Useless Knowledge Whole Will You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 13th, 1870

Died: August 19th, 1945

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