Adolf Hitler vs. Albert Einstein
Read 20 entries attributed to Adolf Hitler alongside 20 attributed to Albert Einstein. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Adolf Hitler alongside 20 attributed to Albert Einstein. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: love, leadership, human nature, religion. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Adolf Hitler, entry #1250: "And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know."
Attributed to Albert Einstein, entry #22: "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Recorded year: 1929.
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Adolf Hitler
1889 – 1945
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era, which lasted from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War.
"And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know."
#love"Triumph of the Will on facinghistory.org"
#history"We want the people to be peace-loving, but also to be courageous."
#courage"In my scheme of the German state, there will be no room for the alien, no use for the wastrel, for the usurer or speculator, or anyone incapable of productiv…"
#work"Antisemitism based on purely emotional grounds will always find its ultimate expression in the form of pogroms. A rational antisemitism, however, must lead t…"
#leadership"John Cornwell, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, Viking, 1999."
#history"Germany will on her side never break the peace. Germany wishes to be on an honourable footing with the neighbour peoples."
#Human Nature"Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany."
#art"In a hundred years time, perhaps, a great man will appear who may offer them a chance at salvation. He'll take me as a model, use my ideas, and follow the co…"
#time"Germany has no claims to make against the European nations except to live exactly like the others. ... What we have in mind is a legal order of European nati…"
#justice"Mein Kampf translation at the Mondo Politico Library"
#books"God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves."
#religion"There are Germans and Poles in Europe, and they ought to live together in agreement. The Poles cannot think of Europe without the Germans and the Germans can…"
#mind"Additionally, on special petition men should be able to enter into a binding martial relationship not only with one woman, but also with another, who would t…"
#family"Germany has nothing to win in any European war. What we want is freedom and independence. Because of this desire we were ready to conclude pacts of non-aggre…"
#freedom"This German Volksgemeinschaft is truly practical socialism and therefore National Socialism in the best sense of the word. Here everyone is obligated to carr…"
#writing"If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower."
#freedom"Atatürk was the first to show that it is possible to mobilize and regenerate the resources that a country has lost. In this respect Atatürk was a teacher; Mu…"
#education"Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There's not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it's unimaginable what can be don…"
#books"National-Socialism came to power in Germany in the same year as Roosevelt was elected President. . . Roosevelt comes from a rich family and belongs to the cl…"
#familyAlbert Einstein
1879 – 1955
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation".
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
#Science1929
"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
#love"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
#love"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
#love"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
#Science1929
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
#Science1929
"There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!"
#nature"And the traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we wa…"
#religion"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
#life"Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which…"
#leadership"Liebe Mutter! Heute eine freudige Nachricht. H. A. Lorentz hat mir telegraphiert, dass die englischen Expeditionen die Lichtablenkung an der Sonne wirklich b…"
#death"For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of Being who …"
#religion"We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tr…"
#knowledge"Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different at…"
#religion"Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he …"
#life"Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets."
#science"It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
#Human Nature"Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less."
#knowledge"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
#politics"Geh Recht viel spazieren, dass Du Recht gesund wirst und lies nicht gar zu viel sondern spar Dir noch was auf bis Du gross bist."