More from Heinrich Heine

  1. Every woman is the gift of a world to me.
  2. He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, th…
  3. Dort, wo man Bucher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
  4. Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
  5. At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it - but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?
  6. 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…
  7. Du bist wie eine Blume, So hold und schon und rein; Ich schau dich an, und Wehmut Schleicht mir ins Herz hinein.
  8. 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.

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