Piet Pieterszoon Hein Quotes & Sayings

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

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you? — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

To be and not to be, that is the answer. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Co-existence or no existence. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me. — 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

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 Pieterszoon Hein

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice. — Piet Pieterszoon 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

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum. — 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

When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different. — 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

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable. — 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