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.
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.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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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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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 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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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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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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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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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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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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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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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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