Genius Is That Which Forces The Inertia

The Prestige Of The Nobel Prize Is Due To Many Causes, But In Particular To Its Twofold Idealistic And International Character: Idealistic In That It Has Been Designed For Works Of Lofty Inspiration; International In That It Is Awarded After The Production Of Different Countries Has Been Minutely Studied And The Intellectual Balance Sheet Of The Whole World Has Been Drawn Up. Free From All Other Considerations And Ignoring Any But Intellectual Values, The Judges Have Deliberately Taken Their Place In What The Philosophers Have Called A Community Of The Mind.

It Is The Very Essence Of Intelligence To Coordinate Means With A View To A Remote End, And To Undertake What It Does Not Feel Absolutely Sure Of Carrying Out.

Intelligence Is Characterized By A Natural Incomprehension Of Life.

Life Does Not Proceed By The Association And Addition Of Elements, But By Dissociation And Division.

Spirit Borrows From Matter The Perceptions On Which It Feeds And Restores Them To Matter In The Form Of Movements Which It Has Stamped With Its Own Freedom.