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 NOBELI intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
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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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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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 truthful man is usually a liar.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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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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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 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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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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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