Heinrich Heine Quotes

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

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  Reading, Book, Evil

  Almansor: A Tragedy l. 245 (1823)

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• We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

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  Life, Death, Forgiveness

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

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  Learning, School, Experience

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

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  Literature, Ass, Public Speaking

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• The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

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  Truth, Truth Love, Deepest Love

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of Travel”, p.465

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• The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.

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  Dog, People, Knows

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• God will forgive me. It's his job.

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  Forgiveness, Jobs, Crazy

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• The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

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  Past, Men, Opinion

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• In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

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  Dark, Men, Past

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

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  Hero, Literature, Clown

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• Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

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  Silence, Essentials, Silence Is

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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

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  Fear, Sleep, Atheism

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

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  Literature, Ask Me, Asks

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• Where words leave off, music begins.

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  Music, Inspirational Music, Music And Life

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• I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

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  Regret, Men, Wife

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• My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

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  Beautiful, Lying, Ocean

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• A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.

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  Stupid, Stupid People, People

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

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  Heart, Men, Years

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• I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.

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  Beautiful, Spring, Eye

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• He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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  Good Life, Gossip, Envy

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• A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

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  Wise, Men, Motivational Sales

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• Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

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  Flower, Heart, Humble

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

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  Historical, Rothschild, Prophet

  Heinrich Heine, Paul Lawrence Rose (1982). “History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany”

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

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  Faith, Believe, Soul

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

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  People, Envy, Elements

  "Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts".

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