Quotes By Heinrich Heine

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

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.

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

Atheism is the last word of theism.

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.

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

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

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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 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.