Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
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.
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.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.
The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.
It's all about being comfortable, forgetting there's a microphone in front of you.
I can be like that: forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.
We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.
