My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
ALFRED NOBELThe 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.
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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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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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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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 recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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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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 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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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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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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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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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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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