Heinrich Heine Famous Quotes
"The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit"
"Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent."
"It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all."
"Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people."
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind."
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."
"Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.)"
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
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.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."
Heinrich Heine Quotations
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."
Clarence Darrow
"The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains."
Edward BulwerLytton
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past."
Maylin Soong Chiang
Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.
Brooks Atkinson
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
Marquis de Flers Robert
The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes."
H Ross Perot