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Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
Heinrich Heine
Christ
Now
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
Heinrich Heine
Battle
Ugly
Woman
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
Divinity
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
Heinrich Heine
Girls
Man
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
Heinrich Heine
Nature
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Heinrich Heine
Ideas
Fight
Newspapers
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.
Heinrich Heine
Time
Miracles
Reason
Spirit
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
Time
World
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
Heinrich Heine
Women
Character
Day
Will
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
Being
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine
Boredom
Reading
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
Heinrich Heine
Faith
Men
Misery
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine
Values
Criticism
Praise
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich Heine
Genius
Fiction
God will forgive me. It's his job.
Heinrich Heine
God
Job
Will