Heinrich Heine Quotes

Most popular Heinrich Heine Quotes

Nature is visible thought. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Nature is visible thought.
— Heinrich Heine
Only feeling understands feeling. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Only feeling understands feeling.
— Heinrich Heine
Man, the aristocrat among animals. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Man, the aristocrat among animals.
— Heinrich Heine City of Lucca

man the animal mankind

God will forgive me. It's his job. - Heinrich Heine quote.
God will forgive me. It's his job.
— Heinrich Heine

forgiveness

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Where words leave off, music begins.
— Heinrich Heine

music

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
— Heinrich Heine Travel Pictures

flowers

The worst of poisons: to mistrust one's power. - Heinrich Heine quote.
The worst of poisons: to mistrust one's power.
— Heinrich Heine
Thought precedes action, as lightning does thunder. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Thought precedes action, as lightning does thunder.
— Heinrich Heine History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany

thoughts

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
— Heinrich Heine
Thought is invisible nature; nature, visible thought. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Thought is invisible nature; nature, visible thought.
— Heinrich Heine
Wise men think out their thoughts; fools proclaim them. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Wise men think out their thoughts; fools proclaim them.
— Heinrich Heine
Wherever books will be burned, men also, will be burned. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Wherever books will be burned, men also, will be burned.
— Heinrich Heine Almansor

censorship

The thought precedes the deed as the lightning the thunder. - Heinrich Heine quote.
The thought precedes the deed as the lightning the thunder.
— Heinrich Heine
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
— Heinrich Heine

freedom books

Do not mock our dreamers . . . their words become the seeds of freedom. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Do not mock our dreamers . . . their words become the seeds of freedom.
— Heinrich Heine
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions. - Heinrich Heine quote.
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.
— Heinrich Heine
Life is a disease, the whole world a hospital, and Death is our physician. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Life is a disease, the whole world a hospital, and Death is our physician.
— Heinrich Heine City of Lucca

life

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. - Heinrich Heine quote.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
— Heinrich Heine

language

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
— Heinrich Heine The Greatest Laughs of All Time

weddings marriage

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged fist to learn Latin. - Heinrich Heine quote.
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged fist to learn Latin.
— Heinrich Heine

language

My heart is like the ocean,
With tempest, ebb, and flow,
And many pearls full precious
Lie in its depths below. - Heinrich Heine quote.
My heart is like the ocean,
With tempest, ebb, and flow,
And many pearls full precious
Lie in its depths below.
— Heinrich Heine Return Home

heart

Oh what lies there are in kisses!
And their guile so well prepared!
Sweet the snaring is; but this is
Sweeter still, to be ensnared. - Heinrich Heine quote.
Oh what lies there are in kisses!
And their guile so well prepared!
Sweet the snaring is; but this is
Sweeter still, to be ensnared.
— Heinrich Heine Poems of Heinrich Heine

kiss

People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions.  And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral. - Heinrich Heine quote.
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions.  And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
— Heinrich Heine The French Stage

conviction

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, a sort of nebulous mediator. - Heinrich Heine quote.
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, a sort of nebulous mediator.
— Heinrich Heine Letters of the French Stage

music

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 quote.
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 Gedanken und Einfälle

religion

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
— Heinrich Heine

experience