Heinrich Heine Quotes on Psychology
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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?
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He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it be made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it remained obstinately immovable, and did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. But a great man will never so far contradict his own feelings as to see, or, it may be, increase, with cold-blooded indifference, the misfortunes of his fellow country-men.
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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, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.
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If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
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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 future smells of Russian leather, of blood, of godlessness and of much whipping. I advise our grandchildren to come into the world with very thick skin on their backs.
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Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.
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Bien sur, il me pardonnera; c'est son metier. [Of course he will forgive me; that's his job.]
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.
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There are more fools in the world than there are people.
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
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Heine says that a true autobiography is almost an impossibility, and that man is bound to lie about himself.