Quotes by Piet Hein

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.”

“Living isa thing you donow or never -which do you?”

“People are self-centeredto a nauseous degree.They will keep on about themselveswhile Im explaining me.”

“The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports”

“If no thought your mind does visit, Make your speech not too explicit”

“The universe may / be as great as they say. / But it wouldnt be missed/ if it didnt exist.”

“The road to wisdom? Well, its plain and simple to express: Err and err again but less and less and less.”

“To make a name for learning/ when other roads are barred,/ take something very easy/ and make it very hard.”

“Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadnt time--/ and now he has eternity.”

“Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.”

Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards.

A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,trying to say-for the thousandth time-whats easier done than said.

Put up in a placewhere it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishmentT.T.TWhen you feel how depressinglyslowly you climbits well to remember thatThings Take Time.

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.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.Everythings eitherconcave or -vex,so whatever you dreamwill be something with sex.

Living isa thing you donow or never --which do you?

PRAYER to the sun above the clouds.Sun that givest all things birth,shine on everything on earth!If thats too much to demand,shine at least on this our land.If even thats too much for thee,shine at any rate on me.

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow,teaches himself, with painful toil,the things that other people know.