He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.
Heinrich HeineGod will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
Heinrich HeineEvery period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
Heinrich HeineGreat genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.
Heinrich HeineThe great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun.
Heinrich Heine