A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
ALFRED NOBELMy home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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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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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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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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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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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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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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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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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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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