Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
Heinrich Heine

Atheism is the last word of theism.
Heinrich Heine

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
Heinrich Heine

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Heinrich Heine

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me; that's his business.
Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me. It's his job.
Heinrich Heine

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich Heine

He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine


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

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
Heinrich Heine

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

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

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
Heinrich Heine

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine

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.
Heinrich Heine

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Heinrich Heine

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

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Heinrich Heine