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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.

Alfred Nobel

Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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heavy Purity Reading Reason Style
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Alone Goodness Peace
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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Action Difficult Dreams Leaving Life Man Work
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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Food Ideas Lose Myself Philosophy Reality
Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Reality Satisfaction Wealth
The truthful man is usually a liar.
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Lying Man One Liner Truth
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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Army Civilization Dynamite End Horror Nation Plant War
My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Home Myself Work
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Hide Hope Naked Nature True
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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Brief Feeling Myself Writing
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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Force Heart Love Stomach
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Myself Personality
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Book Death Ink Life Man
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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Goodness Ideas Myself Satisfaction
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Order Respect Worth
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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Believe Law Live People

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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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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