Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Quotes

• Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
  (Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)

• When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

• There are more fools in the world than there are people.

• 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.

• 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.

• He only profits from praise who values criticism.

• Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m'etier
  (God will forgive me. It's his profession)

• Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

• One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

• The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

• Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

• Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

• I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

• Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier.
  (God will forgive me. It's his job.)

• The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

• Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.