Heinrich Heine Quotes

German - Poet December 13, 1797 - February 17, 1856

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Heinrich Heine

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Heinrich Heine

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.

Heinrich Heine

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

Heinrich Heine

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Heinrich Heine

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Heinrich Heine

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

Heinrich Heine

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Heinrich Heine

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Heinrich Heine

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heinrich Heine