340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.