I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
ALFRED NOBELMy home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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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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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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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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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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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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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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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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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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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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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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