Heinrich Heine Quotes - Page 2

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

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

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

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

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

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

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

I live, which is the main point.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

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

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

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

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

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

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

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

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.