Top 100 Heinrich Quotes
#2. The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
Heinrich Heine
#4. High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars ... high over the stars sweep the angels ...
Heinrich Heine
#5. Princess, princess, youngest daughter,
Open up and let me in!
Or else your promise by the water
Isn't worth a rusty pin.
Keep your promise, royal daughter,
Open up and let me in!
Philip Pullman
#6. The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
Heinrich Heine
#11. Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
#12. Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.
Heinrich Heine
#13. Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.
Heinrich Zimmer
#14. He was a strange mix of Heinrich Himmler and Barney the Dinosaur.
Jonas Eriksson
#15. Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.
Heinrich Heine
#16. There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.
Heinrich Harrer
#18. The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
Otto Heinrich Warburg
#19. This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end
Heinrich Heine
#20. The kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded
Heinrich Von Kleist
#21. People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.
Martin Heinrich
#22. Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.
Heinrich Heine
#23. We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.
Heinrich Himmler
#26. The scientists do not get enough help, enough encouragement, to change their field from time to time because the pressure is too high or is to perform something. And once you start in a new field, you are a nobody to start with, you see.
Heinrich Rohrer
#27. One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high.
Heinrich Muller
#28. Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.
Heinrich Heine
#29. One of the best characteristics of the Tibetan people is their complete tolerance of other creeds. Their monastic theocracy has never sought the conversion of infidels.
Heinrich Harrer
#30. If you want to do something ... get up and actually do it!
Heinrich Boll
#31. And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.
Heinrich Heine
#32. Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.
Heinrich Boll
#33. Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Heinrich Heine
#34. Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.
Heinrich Heine
#35. Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it thought of nothing beside. The fair month of May was then in its pride, The flowers were all from the earth fast springing, The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.
Heinrich Heine
#36. Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.
Heinrich Boll
#37. First, I thought, almost despairing,
This must crush my spirit now;
Yet I bore it, and am bearing-
Only do not ask me how.
Heinrich Heine
#39. Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
Heinrich Heine
#40. I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.
Heinrich Von Pierer
#41. Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being ... conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling.
Gustav Heinrich Ralph Von Koenigswald
#42. Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#43. She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
Heinrich Heine
#45. The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me ...
Heinrich Heine
#46. The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
Heinrich Heine
#47. From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.
Heinrich Hertz
#48. All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
Heinrich Himmler
#49. A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.
Heinrich Boll
#50. To cling to the past is hypocrisy, because no one knows those moments.
Heinrich Boll
#51. 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.
Heinrich Heine
#52. Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness.
Heinrich Himmler
#53. Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction
Heinrich Harrer
#54. We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
Heinrich Himmler
#55. Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha.
Heinrich Heine
#57. The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
Heinrich Heine
#58. Harshaw held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet.
Robert A. Heinlein
#59. This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.
Heinrich Bullinger
#61. We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed.
Heinrich Himmler
#62. Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
Heinrich Heine
#64. One would like to know, for most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more reliable.
Heinrich Boll
#65. Where they burn books they will in the end burn people too
Heinrich Heine
#66. 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
#67. The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.
Heinrich Heine
#68. Lastly, they must be men of honest report, whose life and sound conversation are by their deeds perfectly tried and sufficiently witnessed of unto the people: and finally, they must be such as bear authority, and not be despised as rascal and vile knaves.
Heinrich Bullinger
#69. These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich.
Heinrich Himmler
#70. Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.
Heinrich Boll
#71. Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
Bernd Heinrich
#72. One thing is certain, anyone who collects art is not an artist.
Heinrich Boll
#73. I lacked the advice and guidance of experienced counsellors and so wasted many years before I realised that one must not pursue several aims at the same time.
Heinrich Harrer
#74. Heinrich shrugged as he usually did, with only his mouth.
Richard Groller
#75. Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.
Heinrich Heine
#76. By providing safe nesting sites, woodpeckers are thus keystone organisms for a vast assemblage of birds the world over, including many owls, parrots, parids, flycatchers.
Bernd Heinrich
#77. Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
Heinrich Heine
#80. No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied ... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
Heinrich Schliemann
#81. Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans' will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On
Heinrich Harrer
#82. Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
Heinrich Heine
#83. 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
#84. For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.
Bernd Heinrich
#87. People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
Heinrich Heine
#88. So we keep asking, over and over
Until a handful of earth
Stops our mouths-
But is that an answer?
Heinrich Heine
#89. The characters and action in this story are purely fictitious. Should the description of certain journalistic practices result in a resemblance to the practices of Bild-Zeitung, such resemblance is neither intentional, nor fortuitous, but unavoidable.
Heinrich Boll
#90. Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Heinrich Heine
#91. I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.
Heinrich Himmler
#92. You are a very interesting case, General. Do you know what fat file of evidence we have against you here?
Heinrich Muller
#93. Heinrich Himmler declared: 'Whether 10,000 Russian women collapse with exhaustion in the construction of an anti-tank ditch for Germany only interests me insofar as the ditch gets dug for Germany.
Richard J. Evans
#94. In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
Heinrich Heine
#96. The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather-beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.
Heinrich Heine
#100. If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine