Alfred Nobel > Quotes

“I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.”
― Alfred Bernhard Nobel

“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied”
― Alfred Nobel

“Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.”
― Alfred Nobel

“The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.”
― Alfred Nobel

“The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year. ... One-fifth to the person having made the most important discovery or invention in the science of physics, one-fifth to the person who has made the most eminent discovery or improvement in chemistry, one-fifth to the one having made the most important discovery with regard to physiology or medicine, one-fifth to the person who has produced the most distinguished idealistic work of literature, and one-fifth to the person who has worked the most or best for advancing the fraternization of all nations and for abolishing or diminishing the standing armies as well as for the forming or propagation of committees of peace.”
― Alfred Bernhard Nobel

“عدالت تنها در تخیل یافت می‌شود.”
― Alfred Nobel

“A recluse without books and Ink is already in life a dead man”
― Alfred Nobel

“This might have ended in the usual manner,
And brought the joys and griefs of wedded life;
But 'twas not so ordained: another bridegroom
Had stronger claims - she's wedded to her grave.”
― Alfred Nobel