43 Quotes by 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.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

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.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

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.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.