Religion Quotes by Heinrich Heine

13 Religion quotes by Heinrich Heine

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Heinrich Heine’s humor never lets seriousness slip away, and these thirteen lines showcase his clever critique of faith. It’s a concise, thought‑provoking glimpse for those who appreciate a sardonic twist.

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The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

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

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Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

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Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

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Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

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

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Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more…

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In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit…

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Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between…

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Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

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First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask…

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The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite…

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In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he…

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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

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Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

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

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Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

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The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full…

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I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I…

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First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

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Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are…

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A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

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Thought is invisible nature.

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“Still is the night, it quiets the streets down, In that window my love would appear; She's long since gone away from this town,…

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The dragon-fly is dancing,— Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire…

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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

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He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

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