Author: Heinrich Heine

Quotes

When words leave off, music begins.

When words leave off, music begins.

- Heinrich Heine

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

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

- Heinrich Heine

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

- Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me. It's his job.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

- Heinrich Heine

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

- Heinrich Heine

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

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

- Heinrich Heine

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

- Heinrich Heine

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

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

- Heinrich Heine

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

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

- Heinrich Heine

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