Albert J. Nock Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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

  Culture, Useless, Body

• 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

  Mean, Culture, Forget

• 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

  Culture, Pedants, Forget

• 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

  Culture, World, Pedants

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