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.
ALFRED NOBELA recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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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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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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