On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.
From Alfred Nobel
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
It is my express wish that in awarding the 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.
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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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