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


Albert J. Nock

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BLAISE PASCAL Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
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ALBERT J. NOCK Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry...
ALBERT J. NOCK Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that...
ALBERT J. NOCK Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but...
ALBERT J. NOCK Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless kn...
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ALBERT J. NOCK Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
ALBERT J. NOCK Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be fo...
ALBERT J. NOCK Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then f...
ALBERT J. NOCK The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confis...
ALBERT J. NOCK As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
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ALBERT J. NOCK Any case should be tried in a court of law and not a court of public opinion.
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NICK KINSELLA Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what e...
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WILLIAM RALPH INGE Opinions are a useless currency
AMY NEFTZGER I needed not to be dead when I agreed.”
“You needed not to be alone.
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SARAH J. MAAS Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.
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DON SHEPPERD Character - a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means.
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ALBERT CAMUS Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into ...
ALBERT CAMUS In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common ...
ALBERT CAMUS I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries...
ALBERT CAMUS A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
ALBERT CAMUS The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them togethe...
ALBERT CAMUS Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws...
ALBERT CAMUS I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew...
ALBERT CAMUS Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
ALBERT CAMUS How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
ALBERT CAMUS Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
ALBERT CAMUS Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most ...
ALBERT CAMUS To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the c...
ALBERT CAMUS When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
ALBERT CAMUS All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
ALBERT CAMUS We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...
ALBERT CAMUS To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to ...
ALBERT CAMUS We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
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