{"author":"Heinrich Heine","author_id":"Heinrich+Heine","total_quotes":47,"quotes":[{"text":"It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth  to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["religion"],"id":4637,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"},{"text":"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["great","men","human "],"id":10648,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"},{"text":"When words leave off, music begins.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["words","leave","off "],"id":19832,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"},{"text":"He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had any power; the heart had none. While I ate well and drank well, he kept demonstrating to me the advantages of reason... In striving after the positive, the poor man had argued away all life's splendour, all the sunbeams, all the faith and all the flowers, leaving nothing but the cold, positive grave.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["reason"],"id":36067,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"},{"text":"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["music","battle","me "],"id":38295,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"},{"text":"I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["day","character","every day "],"id":56003,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"},{"text":"I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in proud indifference.Now, when my grave is dug, they taunt me; Now, when I'm sick to death in pain, In mocking torment still they haunt me, Those fragrant blooms of my disdain.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["death","flowers","illness","poetry","symbolism"],"id":75428,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"},{"text":"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["books","censorship"],"id":95852,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"},{"text":"With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["art","creation","inspiration","loopholes","meaning","metaphysics","philosophy","production","speculation","world-view"],"id":117182,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"},{"text":"First, I thought, almost despairing,This must crush my spirit now;Yet I bore it, and am bearing-Only do not ask me how.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["perseverance","poetry"],"id":128730,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}