Heinrich Heine Quotes

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Heinrich Heine

Profession : Poet

Birth : December 13, 1797

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

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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.

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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

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I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

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Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

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He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

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It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

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Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

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I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

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The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

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Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

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God will forgive me; that's his business.

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