Heinrich Heine Quotes
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.
The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
The night comes stealing o'er me, And clouds are on the sea; While the wavelets rustle before me With a mystical melody.
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
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.
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.
The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.
The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.
Good Luck is a giddy maid, Fickle and restless as a fawn; She smooths your hair; and then the jade Kisses you quickly, and is gone.
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.
The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night.
Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,) A music club and music warehouse pretty.