Author: Heinrich Heine

Quotes

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

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

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

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

- 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

God will forgive me. It's his job.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

- Heinrich Heine

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

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

- Heinrich Heine

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

- Heinrich Heine

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