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We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore - since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.
Piet Hein
Idiots are really one hundred per cent when they are also intelligent.
Piet Hein
People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.
Piet Hein
As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.
Piet Hein
The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.
Piet Hein
The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.
Piet Hein
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
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
Piet Hein
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
Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.
Piet 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 Hein
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
Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.
Piet Hein
Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers: they don't want to mend their own ways, but each other's.
Piet Hein
Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.
Piet Hein
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
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
There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with art- lessness.
Piet Hein
Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.
Piet Hein
The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.
Piet Hein
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
Living is a thing you do now or never - which do you?
Piet Hein
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