Heinrich Heine Quotes
A journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets.
(1797 - 1856)
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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
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Atheism is the last word of theism.
[Atheism]
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Believe me, the much-praised lambs of humility would not bear themselves so meekly if they but possessed tiger's claws.
[Humility]
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Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
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Every age has its problem, by solving which, humanity is helped forward.
[Progress]
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Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
[Forgiveness]
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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He that marries is like the Doge who was wedded to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries: mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests await him.
[Marriage]
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
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I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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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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I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
[Happiness]
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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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If all Europe were to become a prison, Ameriea would still present a loop-hole of escape; and, God be praised! that loop-hole is larger than the dungeon itself.
[America]
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
[Education]
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