Heinrich Heine Quotes

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• Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

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  Doe, Action, Thunder

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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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• 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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• 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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• All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

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  Country, Garden, House

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

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  Literature, Ask Me, Asks

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

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  Dog, People, Knows

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

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  Learning, School, Experience

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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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• 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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• Where words leave off, music begins.

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  Music, Inspirational Music, Music And Life

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

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  Stupid, Stupid People, People

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• Thought is invisible nature.

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  Invisible

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.169

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• Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

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  Lying, Kissing, Fool

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

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  Faith, Believe, Soul

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