A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
ALFRED NOBELA recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
ALFRED NOBELThe only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
ALFRED NOBELThe truthful man is usually a liar.
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.
ALFRED NOBELI am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
ALFRED NOBELContentment is the only real wealth.
ALFRED NOBELMy home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
ALFRED NOBELPerhaps 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.
ALFRED NOBELJustice is to be found only in the imagination.
ALFRED NOBELI am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
ALFRED NOBELI have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
ALFRED NOBELIt is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
ALFRED NOBELI 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.
ALFRED NOBELLawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
ALFRED NOBELA heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
ALFRED NOBELLying is the greatest of all sins.
ALFRED NOBEL