Quotes by 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. It's his job.
– Heinrich Heine
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
– 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
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
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
– Heinrich Heine
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
– Heinrich Heine
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
– Heinrich Heine
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
– Heinrich Heine
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
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
– Heinrich Heine
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
– Heinrich Heine
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
– Heinrich Heine
When words leave off, music begins.
– Heinrich Heine
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
– Heinrich Heine
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
– Heinrich Heine
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
– Heinrich Heine
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
– Heinrich Heine
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
– Heinrich Heine
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
– Heinrich Heine
Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
– Heinrich Heine
I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.
– Heinrich Heine
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
– Heinrich Heine
God will forgive me that's his business.
– Heinrich Heine
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
– Heinrich Heine