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Piet Hein
34 quotes
“After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity — now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Man Creates Art Creates Man (1973) by Duane Preble, p. 14
“Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. In the whole pattern of civilization there have been two tendencies, one toward straight lines and rectangular patterns and one toward circular lines. There are reasons, mechanical and psychological, for both tendencies. Things made with straight lines fit well together and save space. And we can move easily — physically or mentally — around things made with round lines. But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Scandinavian Review (2003), by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, p. 18
“Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Consolation Grook, his first grook, published in Politiken (April 1940) as translated in Grooks (1966)
“There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with art- lessness.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Living is a thing you do now or never — which do you?”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Put up in a place where it's easy to see the cryptic admonishmentT.T.T.When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No — not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Co-existence or no existence.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The noble art of losing face may some day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who always know what’s best are a universal pest.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing — will find it.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if you possess more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Giving in is no defeat. Passing on is no retreat. Selves are made to rise above. You shall live in what you love.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore — since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers: they don’t want to mend their own ways, but each other's.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Idiots are really one hundred per cent when they are also intelligent.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source