7 Heinrich Heine Quotes on Culture

Heinrich Heine quotes on culture

5. Dort, wo man Bucher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.

7. Don't send a poet to London.

9. Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

11. 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.

13. 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 beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

29. The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

34. In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.