Quotes By Heinrich Heine

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

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

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

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

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

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

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

God will forgive me; that's his business.

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

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

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

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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?

When words leave off, music begins.

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

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

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

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.

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

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

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.