Heinrich Heine quotes Born: 12/13/1797 Died: 02/17/1856 Country: germany

• Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. (Heinrich Heine) [books/men/start]
• Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. (Heinrich Heine) [experience/school/high]
• Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. (Heinrich Heine) [genius/genius]
• If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world. (Heinrich Heine) [time]
• Oh what lies lurk in kisses! (Heinrich Heine)
• Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented. (Heinrich Heine) [high]
• In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable. (Heinrich Heine) [politics/life/wish]
• In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. (Heinrich Heine) [fight/]
• Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. (Heinrich Heine) [people/willpower]
• While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues. (Heinrich Heine) [look]
• The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right. (Heinrich Heine) [mankind/night/rage/quarrel]
• The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. (Heinrich Heine) [church/art]
• Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. (Heinrich Heine) [men/action/men]
• The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. (Heinrich Heine) [bible/family/jews]
• Ask me not what I have, but what I am (Heinrich Heine)
• Atheism is the last word of theism. (Heinrich Heine)
• Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ. (Heinrich Heine)
• Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. (Heinrich Heine)
• Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. (Heinrich Heine)
• Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. (Heinrich Heine)
• God will forgive me; that's his business. (Heinrich Heine)
• God will forgive me. It's his job. (Heinrich Heine)
• He only profits from praise who values criticism. (Heinrich Heine)
• Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. (Heinrich Heine)
• I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle. (Heinrich Heine)
• I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. (Heinrich Heine)
• I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. (Heinrich Heine)
• I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day. (Heinrich Heine)
• If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. (Heinrich Heine)
• In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. (Heinrich Heine)
• It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man. (Heinrich Heine)

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