Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Wikipedia

• Born: December 13, 1797, Düsseldorf

• Died: February 17, 1856, Paris, Second French Empire

• Spouse: Augustine Crescence Mirat (m. 1841-1856)

• Parents: Betty Heine

• Education: University of Bonn, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Göttingen

Great Thoughts Of Heinrich Heine

"The more I get to know people, the more I like dogs."

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

"When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on."

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

"I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death."

"Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door."

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

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

"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"

"All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish."