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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. John Dewey		Saturday Jan 17, 2026
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About Christian Johann Heinrich Heine

	Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
	Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 - February 17, 1856) was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by German composers. Read More

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One should forgive ones enemies, but not before they are hanged.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

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.

Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

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

God will forgive me. It's his job. Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m tier.

Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet Been invented.

Mark this well, ye proud men of action! ye are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

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.

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

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