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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 · Knowledge

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Albert J. Nock

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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Albert J. Nock

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

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Albert J. Nock

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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Albert J. Nock

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.

History