Heinrich Heine Quotes on Culture
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Dort, wo man Bucher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
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Don't send a poet to London.
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Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
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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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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.
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The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
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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.