Heinrich Heine Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• 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.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dark, Men, Past

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Fear, Sleep, Atheism

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Fear, Atheism, Ass

• He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lying, Fighting, Cutting

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of Travel”, p.466

• Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

  Heinrich Heine

  Mistress, Atheism, States

• I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

  Heinrich Heine

  Order, Baptism, Honor

  Heinrich Heine (1934). “Prose and poetry”

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Believe, Atheism, Literature

• Atheism is the last word of theism

  Heinrich Heine

  Atheism, Lasts, Theism

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