Adolf Hitler vs. Friedrich Nietzsche
Read 20 entries attributed to Adolf Hitler alongside 20 attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Adolf Hitler alongside 20 attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche. 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, nature, books. 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 Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #1191: "Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life."
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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"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"If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower."
#freedom"You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more."
#mind"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"Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to sec…"
#nature"Mein Kampf translation at the Mondo Politico Library"
#books"We are rearming, but do not dream of attacking other nations, providing they leave us alone. ... We have given Central Europe a great fortune—namely, peace, …"
#hope"And justice is on the side of those nations that fight for their threatened existence. And this struggle for existence will spur these nations on to the most…"
#justice"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"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"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"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"Everyone was at one time a Social Democrat."
#time"The liberty of the individual ends where it starts to harm the interests of the collective."
#freedom"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…"
#familyFriedrich Nietzsche
1844 – 1900
German philosopher whose work challenged conventional morality and values.
"Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life."
#life"Without music, life would be a mistake."
#Philosophy1889
"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."
#love"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
#friendship"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
#love"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
#love"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
#friendship"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
#Philosophy1882
"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."
#Philosophy1889
"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."
#love"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
#love"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
#Philosophy1889
"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a st…"
"The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole."
#books"To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long—that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there …"
#nature"All that exists that can be denied deserves to be denied; and being truthful means: to believe in an existence that can in no way be denied and which is itse…"
#truth"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
#life"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
#truth"The pride connected with knowing and sensing lies like a blinding fog over the eyes and senses of men, thus deceiving them concerning the value of existence.…"
#life"The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life."
#life