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The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
SMALL THINGS& GREAT
He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him. — Piet Hein
We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
PRESCRIPTION A bit
of virtue
will never
hurt you. — Piet Hein
Knowing what / Thou knowest not / Is in a sense / Omniscience. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
— Piet Hein
Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
If you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
VITA BREVIS A lifetime
is more
than
sufficiently long
for people to get what there is of it
wrong. — Piet Hein
People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,trying to say-
for the thousandth time-
what's easier done than said. — Piet Hein
The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
To be and not to be, that is the answer.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERESHow instructive
is a star!
It can teach us
from afar
just how small
each other are. — Piet Hein
Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Co-existence or no existence.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
