Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.More Heinrich Heine [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.More Heinrich Heine [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Oh what lies lurk in kisses!More Heinrich Heine [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.More Heinrich Heine [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.More Heinrich Heine [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.More Heinrich Heine [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Atheism is the last word of theism.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:03]

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:08]

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:14]

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:26]

God will forgive me; that's his business.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:36]

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:05]

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:10]

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:19]

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:36]

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:46]

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:52]

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:06]

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:11]

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:16]

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:23]

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:33]

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:41]

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:48]

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.More Heinrich Heine [08/14/2011 04:08:58]