Albert J. Nock

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large…

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise…

The university’s business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently…

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many…

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of…

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to…

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is…

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought…

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry…

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest…

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not…

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