Heinrich Heine Men Quotations

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life

The men of action are, after all only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

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

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

I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

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.

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.