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| Heinrich Heine
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. Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ. Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. 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. Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. Oh, what lies there are in kisses. One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. 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 Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. There are more fools in the world than there are people. True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose. When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on. When words leave off, music begins. Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues. You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. |
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