For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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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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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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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
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I 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.
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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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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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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 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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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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