Friedrich Nietzsche vs. Albert Einstein
Read 20 entries attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche alongside 20 attributed to Albert Einstein. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche 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: life, love. 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 Albert Einstein, entry #22: "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Recorded year: 1929.
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"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."
#lifeAlbert 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"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
#love"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
#love"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
#Science1929
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
#Science1929
"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"The meaning of relativity has been widely misunderstood. Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. Relativity, as I see it, merely denotes t…"
#life"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"منطق شما را از A به B میبرد، ولی تخیل شما را به همه جا میبرد.» The New Quotable Einstein. Princeton University Press; Enl. Commemorative Ed. / edition"
#education"Liebe Mutter! Heute eine freudige Nachricht. H. A. Lorentz hat mir telegraphiert, dass die englischen Expeditionen die Lichtablenkung an der Sonne wirklich b…"
#death"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"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."
"The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation."
#justice"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
#life"No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a bi…"
#love"I do not believe in freedom of the will. Schopenhauer's words: "Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills" accompany me in all situations th…"
#freedom"If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905."