Quotes from Heinrich Heine
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.
- Heinrich Heine
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
- Heinrich Heine
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
- Heinrich Heine
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
- Heinrich Heine
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
- Heinrich Heine
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
- Heinrich Heine
So we keep asking, over and over Until a handful of earth Stops our mouths- But is that an answer?
- Heinrich Heine
Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.
- Heinrich Heine
For the Greeks, beauty is truth; for the Hebrews, truth is beauty.
- Heinrich Heine
Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.
- Heinrich Heine
Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha.
- Heinrich Heine
Christianity has somewhat mitigated that brutal Germanic love of war. Should that subduing talisman—the cross—be shattered, a play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent walk in the park.
- Heinrich Heine