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.

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

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

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.

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.