340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night.

Thought is invisible nature.

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.