Heinrich Heine
» Action » “Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.”
» Adaptability » “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.”
» Bible » “The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.”
» Censorship » “Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.”
» Cries and Crying » “Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.”
» Experience » “Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.”
» Forgiveness » “Of course God will forgive me; that’s His job.”
» Forgiveness » “God will forgive me, that’s his business.”
» Genius » “Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.”
» Language » “If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.”
» Marriage » “Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.”
» Newspapers » “In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.”
» Politicians and Politics » “In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.”
» Quarrels » “The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel — and all of them are right.”
» Revolutions and Revolutionaries » “Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.”
» Self-esteem » “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.”
