Quotes By Heinrich Heine

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

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

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

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

God will forgive me; that's his business.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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.

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

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

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

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

When words leave off, music begins.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

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

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

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

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

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

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

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

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.

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