Words matter. These are the best Heinrich Heine Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
God will forgive me. It’s his job.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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.
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of – another Jew?
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Atheism is the last word of theism.
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
When words leave off, music begins.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
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.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
Of course God will forgive me; that’s His job.
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
God will forgive me; that’s his business.
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
