Friedrich Nietzsche vs. Abraham Lincoln
Read 20 entries attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche alongside 20 attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche alongside 20 attributed to Abraham Lincoln. 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: life, love, truth, books, nature. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #1191: "Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life."
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, entry #171: "I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disp…"
Side-by-Side Comparison
Friedrich 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"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
#love"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
#friendship"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
"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
#love"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."
#love"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
#Philosophy1889
"The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts …"
#truth"A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling."
#death"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"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"What is the seal of liberation? — No longer being ashamed in front of oneself."
#philosophy"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"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
#life"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? …"
#lifeAbraham Lincoln
1744 – 1786
Abraham Lincoln (1809) was the 16th President of the United States, who led the nation through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
"I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the cou…"
#Epistemology"They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States."
#Politics"A stanza of Lincoln's "On Seduction" (1837-39) as conveyed by James H. Matheny (1865 or 1866)"
#Politics"Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest a…"
#Politics"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed…"
#Metaphysics"I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough t…"
#Epistemology"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
#Politics"They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to in…"
#Politics"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called up…"
#Politics"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
#Politics"The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There a…"
#truth"All portions of this confederacy should act in harmony and with careful deliberation. The Democrats cry John Brown invasion. We are guiltless of it, but our …"
#freedom"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and s…"
#nature"You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional — I think differently. I think the constitut…"
#justice"Inasmuch as our country is extensive and new, and the countries of Europe are densely populated, if there are any abroad who desire to make this the land of …"
#love"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
#life"Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln"
#books"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
"All this is not the result of accident. It has a philosophical cause. Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even…"
#freedom"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!"
#books