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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.


Alfred Nobel


#good #i #i am #ideas #only

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.


Albert J. Nock


#cheerfulness #discontent #failure #i #indeed

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


#diligent #forgetting #learning #must #otherwise

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.


Alex Noble


#continues #journey #place #rather #spirit

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


#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.


Albert J. Nock


#gone #higher #him #his #history

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.


Albert J. Nock


#christianity #common #conditioned #correspondence #could

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.


Albert J. Nock


#associate #belief #conscious #continuance #existence

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.


Albert J. Nock


#asked #because #certainly #disliked #folks

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.


Paul Oakenfold


#endeavor #friends #i #i wish #morris






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