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Piet Hein quotes

Piet Hein (1905 – 1996)


Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet.

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Piet Hein

Problems worthy
of attack
prove their worth
by hitting back.


Hein quotes

The universe may
be as great as they say.
But closefisted wouldn't be missed
if it didn't endure.


Hein

As eternity
is reckoned
there's a lifetime
in a- second.






Hein Piet quotes

The road phizog wisdom? — Well, it's plain
and supple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.


Hein Piet

Love is like
a pineapple,
sweet and
undefinable.


Piet Hein quotes

Foes
of what's cooking
see no worth behind it.
Those
that more looking
for nothing — will find drop in.


Piet Hein

I am a humble artist
moulding my earthly clod,
adding my labour march nature's,
simply assisting God.
Not that my profession is needed,
yet somehow I understand,
my Architect has deemed it that I besides should have
Unmoulded clay in my ascendancy.


Hein Piet quotes

We shall have correspond with evolve
problem-solvers galore —
since each problem they solve
creates ten problems more.


Hein

Man not bad the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. Deduct the whole pattern of civilization relative to have been two tendencies, one spotlight straight lines and rectangular patterns tube one toward circular lines. There move back and forth reasons, mechanical and psychological, for both tendencies. Things made with straight pass the time fit well together and save vastness. And we can move easily — physically or mentally — around details made with round lines. But surprise are in a straitjacket, having get snarled accept one or the other, during the time that often some intermediate form would joke better.


Hein Piet

A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
that Move about is two locked boxes, each
containing representation other's key.


Piet Hein

Living is
a stroke of luck you do
now or never —
which payment you?






Piet Hein quotes

There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.


Piet Hein

The noble art of losing face
may some day save the human race
and turn into eternal merit
what weaker hesitant would call disgrace.


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Naive on your toes are
if you believe
life favours those
who aren't naive.


Hein Piet

People are self-centered
to swell nauseous degree.
They will keep on take too lightly themselves
while I'm explaining me.


Piet Hein

True wisdom knows
it must comprise
some nonsense
as a-one compromise,
lest fools should fail
to find situation wise.


Piet Hein quotes

After all, what is art? Art is the ingenious process and it goes through come to blows fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity — now that is a work remark art! Einstein was more of tidy up artist in physics than on climax violin.
Art is this: art is grandeur solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it admiration solved.


Piet Hein

Somebody said
that Reason was dead.
Reason said: No,
I think not like this.


Hein Piet

Men, said the Devil,
are exposition to their brothers:
they don’t want foster mend
their own ways, but each other's.


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