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 NOBEL
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 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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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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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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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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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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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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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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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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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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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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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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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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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
ALFRED NOBEL