For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
ALFRED NOBELIt is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
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The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
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My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
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It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
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