Albert J. Nock Quotes

Albert J. Nock — American Philosopher born on October 13, 1870, died on August 19, 1945

Albert Jay Nock was an influential American libertarian author, educational theorist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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.

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 Quotes

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