Heinrich Heine Quotes

"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Money, Evil, Fact, World)

"The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Family, Bible)

"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
(Related: Eloquence, Fool, Man, May, Talk, Talking)

"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Death, Sleep)

"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Death, Sleep)

"The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Music, Wedding, Battle, March, Soldiers)

"Of course God will forgive me; that's His job."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: God, Job, Will)

"Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Men, Books, End)

"Oh, what lies there are in kisses."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Kisses, Lies)

"There are more fools in the world than there are people."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: People, Fools, World)

"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Eloquence, Nothing, Saying)

"Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: End, May, Tears)

"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Music, Battle, Soldiers, Weddings)

"When words leave off, music begins."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Music, Words)

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Books, End, Will)

"Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: People, Revolution, Will)

"Woman is at once apple and serpent."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Woman)

"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Statistics)

"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Death, People, Communism, Envy, Hunger, Language)

"When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Clowns, Heroes)

"Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Religion, Man, Sense, Terror)

"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Experience, School)

"Atheism is the last word of theism."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Atheism, Word)

"Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Matrimony, Sea)

"Ask me not what I have, but what I am."
- Heinrich Heine

"God will forgive me; that's his business."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Business, God, Will)

"God will forgive me. It's his job."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: God, Job, Will)

"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Genius, Fiction)

"He only profits from praise who values criticism."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Values, Criticism, Praise)

"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Faith, Men, Misery)

"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Boredom, Reading)

"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
(Related: Being)

"I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Women, Character, Day, Will)

"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Time, World)

"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
(Related: Time, Miracles, Reason, Spirit)

"In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Ideas, Fight, Newspapers)

"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Nature)

"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Girls, Man)

"It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?"
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Divinity)

"I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Battle, Ugly, Woman)

"Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ."
- Heinrich Heine
(Related: Christ, Now)