Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
ALFRED NOBELI am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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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 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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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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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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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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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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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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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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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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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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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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