Friedrich Nietzsche vs. David Cay Johnston
Read 20 entries attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche alongside 20 attributed to David Cay Johnston. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche alongside 20 attributed to David Cay Johnston. 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: philosophy, truth, books. 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 David Cay Johnston, entry #63363: "Where are the ministers? ... ...said ..."Donald denies it." Well, Eliot Spitzer denied it. ...Bill Clinton denied it. ... goes... "Donald is a changed man from 10 years ago." ...T…"
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"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
#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"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
"Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the o…"
#happiness"Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people — the ancient Greeks, f…"
#life"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…"
"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"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"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
#life"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.…"
#lifeDavid Cay Johnston
1948
David Cay Boyle Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
"Where are the ministers? ... ...said ..."Donald denies it." Well, Eliot Spitzer denied it. ...Bill Clinton denied it. ... goes... "Donald is a changed man fr…"
#philosophy"f Reaganism worked, if Bush's tax cuts worked, America today would be swimming in jobs. That's what we were promised. It would lead to all this investment an…"
#time"The fundamental affect that's taking place... is that government has changed from focusing on nurturing and developing a stable middle class, to these other …"
#politics"People don't know... They... are so fascinated by what's going on in the White House, they're not paying attention to what matters. ...he reason I hope every…"
#books"All of the Founders of this country... were well steeped in the history of the ancient world. ...hey were very concerned about the rabble... about people bei…"
#history"he Internal Revenue Service in 2003 released its first public analysis of tax returns filed by the 400 highest income Americans... from 1992 to 2000. ...the …"
#society"That's what I'm worried about... the tyrant next time."
#time"he Trump presidency is unlike anything that came before, a presidency built on open public contempt for Constitutional principles."
#ethics"Our democracy is in very deep trouble. ...Donald Trump is not the disease. He is the symptom."
#politics"As taxpayers we gave one of Warren Buffet's companies, in 2006, an interest-free loan of $665 million dollars, and he only has to pay half of it back 28 year…"
#justice"ound bytes of politicians in both parties bear as much connection to the reality of the tax system as my... grandson's belief in Santa."
#truth"Trump started a faux university named for himself that taught nothing of value and collapsed in scandal."
#art"This book tells you what has either not been in the news or been in it glancingly, about what they're doing to our government; and that effects your safety, …"
#politics"Journalism never did a great job of covering government, but 40% of journalism jobs in this country have disappeared since 2000. ...s a result of that the ag…"
#books"Japan has mandatory unions. ...It's in their Constitution, and who wrote their Constitution? ...The staff of... General Douglas MacArthur, because he knew th…"
#art"The impulse to increase profits can blind men to risk, especially when those at risk are strangers. Society imposes rules on corporate behavior to protect pu…"
#society"He has boasted about not paying banks that loaned him billions of dollars. He conned thousands of people desperate to learn... paying up to $35,000 to attend…"
#knowledge"The way that the Trump administration is cutting regulations... It's just "Go ahead and pollute. Take the toxic residue from burning coal, and instead of dry…"
#justice"In the past quarter century... new rules... have weakened and even destroyed consumer protections while increasing the power of the already powerful. ...he r…"
#power"government that can't tax ...is no government at all."
#politics