Quote #36

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

More from Heinrich Heine

  1. You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
  2. 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.
  3. In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit …
  4. True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
  5. I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
  6. Heine says that a true autobiography is almost an impossibility, and that man is bound to lie about himself.
  7. There are more fools in the world than there are people.
  8. The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

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