Albert J. Nock Quotes

Albert J. Nock
American Philosopher
Born: Oct 13, 1870
Died: Aug 19, 1945
Because Culture Knowledge Learning Life Me
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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
Life Mathematics Knowledge History You Remember Will Lost Gone Cargo Only Obliged Higher He Him His Much Languages Useful Useful Knowledge Useless Useless Knowledge Original Whole
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. Albert J. Nock
Knowledge Made Directly Force Opinion Sound Public Disinterested Public Opinion Useless Useless Knowledge
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
Learning Culture Pedantry Otherwise Diligent Must Forgetting Process
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
Life Spiritual Christianity Heritage Correspondence Immortality See Spiritual Life Could Never Environment Terms Sort Always Conditioned Same Common Should Organized Why
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. Albert J. Nock
Money Power Own Too State Well None Understood Just Unfortunately
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
Knowledge Culture Considered Define Possession Has-Been Well Been Truly May Forgotten Body Useless Useless Knowledge Large Now
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
Knowledge Business School Society Dissemination Unless Enterprise Indispensable Noble Scientific Exist Goes Useful Useful Knowledge
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
Life Quality Kind Immortality Lead Idea Perhaps Most Quality Of Life Continuance Existence Any Which Us Much Reason Belief Found Conscious Associate
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
Nature Spiritual Man Soul Thought Before Assuming Appropriate Distinct Unnatural Knowing Without Does His Conditions Die Might Should Body Why
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
Learning Culture World Made Pedantry Pretty Throughout Well Always Been Itself Forgetting Modern Expense Established Modern World Much Therefore
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
Knowledge Business Society Unless Enterprise See Only Indispensable Noble Fails Well Exist Itself Goes Useless Useless Knowledge Apparently University Conservation
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
Life Failure Parents Saw Indeed Somehow Seemed Never Over Supposed Trace Cheerfulness Discontent Were Lot Quite Lack Anything Poor Might Needed
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. Albert J. Nock
Me Worth Thought Too Seemed Small Wrong Always Question While Moment Who Right
Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks. Albert J. Nock
Me Jews Folks Someone True Like Because Were Years Years Ago Replied Disliked Asked Certainly

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