Albert J. Nock quote: "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."

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of co...
ALBERT J. NOCK

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we ne...
ALBERT J. NOCK

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble en...
ALBERT J. NOCK

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly...
ALBERT J. NOCK

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opi...
ALBERT J. NOCK

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is...
ALBERT J. NOCK

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digest...
ALBERT J. NOCK

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a ...
ALBERT J. NOCK

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social ...
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...
ALBERT J. NOCK

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itse...
ALBERT J. NOCK

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that u...
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.
ALBERT J. NOCK

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it ...
ALBERT J. NOCK

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment...
ALBERT J. NOCK

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently...
ALBERT JAY NOCK

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digest...
ALBERT JAY NOCK

The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based...
ALBERT JAY NOCK

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. On...
ALBERT JAY NOCK

Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differen...
ALBERT JAY NOCK

It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to...
ALBERT JAY NOCK

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confis...
ALBERT JAY NOCK

The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage...
ALBERT JAY NOCK

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our...
ALBERT JACK NOCK

It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose co...
ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE

We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands.
ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE

Them soft voices in the sea of opinions are probably the wisest.
ALBERT J VIERLING

Never lie to yourself. It's a base law of life. (12/2012)
ALBERT J VIERLING

..''Love is not a matter of PASSION....It is also a matter of COMPASSION.... Loving and love-making ...
ALBERT J. NIMETH

Stupidity tends to assemble itself with other(s). (4/2013)
ALBERT J VIERLING

Just because you do not understand the fact, or hate it, or have chosen to willfully ignore it. Does...
ALBERT J VIERLING

Just because an academic produces words does not make it a fact. (5/2014)
ALBERT J VIERLING

Politics is about spinning falsehoods on your opponent that are your truths. (10/2013)
ALBERT J VIERLING

Saying something is true or false does not make it a fact. (5/2014)
ALBERT J VIERLING

Know(ing) the History (Leads to) Understand(ing) the Present (Giving) Predict(ions to) the Future (1...
ALBERT J VIERLING

What you know does not make you smart. How you process what you know does. (12/2011)
ALBERT J VIERLING

Those that need the most get the least. (1/1980)
ALBERT J VIERLING

Wisdom and Knowledge are not equals. (4/2012)
ALBERT J VIERLING

Acknowledging a truth is not the same as accepting it. (12/2012)
ALBERT J VIERLING

Specialization is superior, Generalization gets it done. (2/2012)
ALBERT J VIERLING

Ignorance attracts stupidity. (4/2013)
ALBERT J VIERLING

Don't let a Narcissist, or any other kind of vampire, get away with nonverbal disapproval. Unspoken ...
ALBERT J. BERNSTEIN

In graduate school, I learned this simple distinction: when people are driving themselves crazy, the...
ALBERT J. BERNSTEIN

Why does our world feel so very crazy? Why do mental and emotional illnesses emerge more rapidly tha...
ALBERT J. LACHANCE

The Chinese are getting very focused on corporate governance. If you're looking around the region, g...
MICHAEL NOCK DRAWS

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT

No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT

I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT

My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT

If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT

I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT

When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT

You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT

I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT

I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT

I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT

I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT

People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT

A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT

I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT

Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT

I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT

I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT

I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS

You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT

In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT

There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE

I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS

There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT

It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT

It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
ALBERT CAMUS

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not ...
ALBERT ELLIS

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton&...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for some...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man&...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never f...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Never lose a holy curiosity.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything i...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
ALBERT CAMUS

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to kn...
ALBERT ELLIS

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
ALBERT CAMUS

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
ALBERT CAMUS

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
ALBERT CAMUS

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
ALBERT CAMUS

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither t...
ALBERT CAMUS

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a ...
ALBERT CAMUS

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
ALBERT CAMUS

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
ALBERT CAMUS

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as i...
ALBERT CAMUS

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every o...
ALBERT CAMUS

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
ALBERT CAMUS

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...
ALBERT CAMUS

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
ALBERT CAMUS

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
ALBERT CAMUS

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
ALBERT CAMUS

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of phil...
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.
ALBERT CAMUS

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.

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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.

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