Thinking Quotes by Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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

— 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

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

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Co-existence or no existence.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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

— 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…

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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

— 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

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein