I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
ALFRED NOBELFor me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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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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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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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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Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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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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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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