Alfred Nobel Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Alfred Nobel:

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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.

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

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Lying is the greatest of all sins.

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

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

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

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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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The truthful man is usually a liar.

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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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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.

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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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