Heinrich HeineThinkers

Action is preceded by thought in the same way that lightning precedes thunder.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Book burning is always a bad beginning. Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Censorship is a great evil, where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

Communism has a language which every people can understand its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Conviction is that possessed by men of the past, while we moderns have only opinions.

The Dark ages is that wherein one is best guided by religion, just as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide. He knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see.

Eloquence is saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary.