Quote #12

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

More from Heinrich Heine

  1. 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.
  2. Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and …
  3. 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…
  4. The future smells of Russian leather, of blood, of godlessness and of much whipping. I advise our grandchildren to come into the world with…
  5. Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
  6. No talent, but a character.
  7. He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, th…
  8. Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.

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