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Heinrich Heine Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the german poet Heinrich Heine on topics like world, high, censorship

  • Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

    — Heinrich Heine on experience
    45
  • There are more fools in the world than there are people.

    — Heinrich Heine on ignorance
    16
  • Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

    — Heinrich Heine on censorship
    10
  • Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

    — Heinrich Heine on sleep
    8
  • God will forgive me. It's his job.

    — Heinrich Heine on sin
    8
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  • Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

    — Heinrich Heine on genius
    7
  • Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

    — Heinrich Heine on marriage
    6
  • I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

    — Heinrich Heine on boredom
    6
  • Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

    — Heinrich Heine on revolution
    5
  • In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

    — Heinrich Heine on politics
    4
  • 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 on respect
    4
  • Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

    — Heinrich Heine on crying
    3
  • About Heinrich Heine

    Name Heinrich Heine
    Quotes 37 quotations
    Nationality German
    Profession Poet
    Birthday October 16
    About Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.
    Top topics world, high, censorship, books, music
  • Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

    — Heinrich Heine on censorship
    3
  • The lotus flower is troubledAt the sun's resplendent light;

    With sunken head and sadlyShe dreamily waits for the night.

    — Heinrich Heine on flowers
    2
  • When words leave off, music begins.

    — Heinrich Heine on music
    2
  • If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.

    — Heinrich Heine on language
    2
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  • 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 on adaptability
    2
  • 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 on eloquence
    2
  • Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

    — Heinrich Heine on actions
    1
  • Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

    — Heinrich Heine on kisses
    1
  • You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

    — Heinrich Heine on science
    1
  • Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

    — Heinrich Heine on forgive
    0
  • Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

    — Heinrich Heine on consolation
    0
  • 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 on confirmed
    0
  • Mine is a most peaceable disposition.

    My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, He will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees.

    — Heinrich Heine on simplicity
    0
  • Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

    — Heinrich Heine on books
    0
  • The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

    — Heinrich Heine on bible
    0
  • 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 on fight
    0
  • Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

    — Heinrich Heine on experience
    0
  • True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

    — Heinrich Heine on consists
    0
  • The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

    — Heinrich Heine on wedding
    0
  • The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

    — Heinrich Heine on arose
    0
  • If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

    — Heinrich Heine on education
    0
  • 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 it all.

    — Heinrich Heine on impermanence
    0
  • In the marvellous month of May when all the buds were bursting,then in my heart didlove arise.In the marvellous month of Maywhen all the birds were singing,then did I reveal to hermy yearning and longing.

    — Heinrich Heine on seasons
    0
  • I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave;I awoke, and the tearsstill poured down my cheeks.I wept in my dreams,I dreamed you had left me;I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly.I wept in my dreams,I dreamed you were still kind to me;I awoke, and stillthe flow of my tears streams on.

    — Heinrich Heine on dreams
    0
  • In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

    — Heinrich Heine on news
    0
  • Related Topics

    • experience
    • good
    • school
    • fees
    • high
    • ignorance
    • stupidity
    • fools
    • world
    • people
    • censorship
    • books
    • burned
    • men
    • end
    • sleep
    • lovely
    • death
    • born
    • miracle
    • sin
    • god
    • forgive
    • job
    • genius
    • great
    • takes
    • shape
    • contact
    • assimilation
    • fiction
    • marriage
    • matrimony
    • sea
    • compass

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