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.
ALFRED NOBELI 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.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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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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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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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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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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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.
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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 am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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 heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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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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