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Heinrich Heine Quotes
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Famous Heinrich Heine Quotations
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Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 in Desseldorf - 17 February 1856 in Paris) was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by German composers
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- 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 »
- Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.) Heinrich Heine »
- Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. Heinrich Heine »
- Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. Heinrich Heine »
- It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all. Heinrich Heine »
- Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. Heinrich Heine »
- Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. Heinrich Heine »
- The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. Heinrich Heine »
- The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit Heinrich Heine »
- The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 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 »
- There are more fools in the world than there are people. Heinrich Heine »
- Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. Heinrich Heine »
- Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people. Heinrich Heine »
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