"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 Jay Nock was an American writer, social critic, and libertarian thinker. He wrote on politics, culture, and the role of the state in society. His essays influenced twentieth-century conservative and libertarian discourse.