Quotes from Heinrich Heine

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

Where words leave off, music begins.

God will pardon me. It is His trade.

God will pardon: That's His business.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

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