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 NOBELWorry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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 not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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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 truthful man is usually a liar.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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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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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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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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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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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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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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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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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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