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…

— 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

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

— 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…

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

To be and not to be, that is the answer.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what…

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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

— 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

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein