Heinrich Heine Quotes - Page 2

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

  Heinrich Heine

  Faith, Men, Literature

  "The Sword and the Flame".

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

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  Sadness, Mind, Fairy Tale

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• It is an ancient story
  Yet is it ever new.

  Heinrich Heine

  Life, New Life, Stories

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• He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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  Good Life, Gossip, Envy

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• 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.

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  Evil, Tolerance, Religion

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• Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

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  Women, Flower, Pretty Woman

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.117

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• Thinking of Germany in the night robs me of my sleep.

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  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Mean, Solitude, Individuality

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

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  Miracle, Matter, Spirit

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

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  Women, Character, New Day

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• I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

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  Heart, Break, Ifs

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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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• You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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  Science, Diversity, Political

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

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  Fear, Atheism, Ass

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• Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

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  Humanity, Progress, Age

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

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  Stupid, Bipolar, Insane

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• The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

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  Ocean, Sea, Sky

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.89

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

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  Book, People, Burning

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

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  Silence, Literature, Eloquence

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Maxims and Moral Sentences, No. 262), 1922.

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• Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

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  Freedom, Religion, Our Time

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.468

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• Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

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  Marriage, Sea, Literature

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

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