Piet Hein Quotes

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.

Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth

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

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.

MAKING AN EFFORT
Our so-called limitations, I believe,
apply to faculties we don't apply.
We don't discover what we can't achieve
until we make an effort not to try.

Co-existence or no existence.

There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with art- lessness.

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition

One who, consuming midnight oil
in studies diligent and slow,
teaches himself, with painful toil,
the things that other people know.

Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers: they don’t want to mend their own ways, but each other's.

The noble art of losing face
may some day save the human race
and turn into eternal merit
what weaker minds would call disgrace.

Idiots are really one hundred per cent when they are also intelligent.

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

Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing — will find it.

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

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.

PRAYER to the sun above the clouds.

Sun that givest all things birth,
shine on everything on earth!

If that's too much to demand,
shine at least on this our land.

If even that's too much for thee,
shine at any rate on me.