Piet hein quotes about strength
Piet Hein
Piet Hein (16 December – 18 April) was a Danishmathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet. He often wrote using the pseudonymKumbel (Old Norse for "tombstone").
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!
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- As quoted in Man Creates Art Creates Man () by Duane Preble, p. 14
- Variant translation: Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved.
The shaping of the question is part of the answer.
- As quoted in Architecture: form, space, and order () by Francis D.K. Ching, p.Quotes about success Exclamation marks in brackets never fail to draw attention. Reason said: No, I think not so. WonderfulQuote is the website where you will find the best quotes on any topic. Dream , Sex , Vex.
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- As quoted in Architecture: form, space, and order () by Francis D.K. Ching, p.Quotes about success Exclamation marks in brackets never fail to draw attention. Reason said: No, I think not so. WonderfulQuote is the website where you will find the best quotes on any topic. Dream , Sex , Vex.
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.
- Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. In the whole pattern of civilization there have been two tendencies, one toward straight lines and rectangular patterns and one toward circular lines. There are reasons, mechanical and psychological, for both tendencies.
Things made with straight lines fit well together and save space. And we can move easily — physically or mentally — around things made with round lines. But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better.
- As quoted in Scandinavian Review (), by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, p.
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- As quoted in Scandinavian Review (), by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, p.
Grooks
- "Grooks" was the name Hein devised for his short pithy poems, which he published in over 20 volumes. Hein's mother tongue was Danish, but he translated his poems to English, German, Spanish and a number of other languages. Some grooks online
- 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.- Consolation Grook, his first grook, published in Politiken (April ) as translated in Grooks ()
- There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.
- Living is
a thing you do
now or never —
which do you?
- As eternity
is reckoned
there's a lifetime
in a second.
- Love is like
a pineapple,
sweet and
undefinable.
- Naive you are
if you believe
life favours those
who aren't naive.
- Somebody said
that Reason was dead.
Reason said: No,
I think not so.
- People are self-centered
to a nauseous degree.Piet hein quotes about strength and weakness In fact, of course, each occupier's place is the other's insulating interspaces. Learn more. Sign in. Three facts, quite easy, should be known to all would-be arrivers who set out on wheels: that roads are greasy, safety margins small, and fellow drivers fellow imbeciles.
They will keep on about themselves
while I'm explaining me.
- Problems worthy
of attack
prove their worth
by hitting back.
Put up in a place
T.T.T.
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishmentWhen you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time.- T.T.T.
(Acronym in Danish: Ting Tager Tid)
- T.T.T.
- The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
- The way to grow grand
is not: to demand.
In life's every field
you are what you yield.
- Wisdom is
the booby prize
given when you've been
unwise.
- 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.
- The universe may
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed
if it didn't exist.Piet hein quotes about strength Each passing moment is seized and chewed with argument incontestable. It's easy enough when you know what to do. Dream , Sex , Vex. True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.- Nothing Is Indespensable: Grook to warn the universe against megalomania
- 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.
- 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
- Co-existence
or no existence.- That Is The Question: Hamlet Anno Domini
- The noble art of losing face
may some day save the human race
and turn into eternal merit
what weaker minds would call disgrace.
- Those who always
know what’s best
are
a universal pest.
- A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
that Life is two locked boxes, each
containing the other's key.
- Foes
of what's cooking
see no worth behind it.Quotes: 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. Premasticated, like baby food, eternity is digestible. Mistake: Choose Piet Pieterszoon Hein.
Those
that are looking
for nothing — will find it.
- if you possess
more than just eight things
then y o u
are possessed by t h e m
- Giving in is no defeat.
Passing on is no retreat.
Selves are made to rise above.
You shall live in what you love. - Quotes
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- Quotes about happiness
- Love while you've got
love to give.
Live while you've got
life to live.
- We shall have to evolve
problem-solvers galore —
since each problem they solve
creates ten problems more.
- Men, said the Devil,
are good to their brothers:
they don’t want to mend
their own ways, but each other's.Piet hein quotes about strength and conditioning A relativistic grook on co-existence A human being sharing with a mouse. But that meant nothing, -- they were the minority. We have a defence against other defences, but what's to defend us against our own? Create account.
- The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.- Hint And Suggestion: Admonitory grook addressed to youth
- Experts have
their expert fun
ex cathedra
telling one
just how nothing
can be done.
- Shun advice
at any price -
that's what I call
good advice.
- True wisdom knows
it must comprise
some nonsense
as a compromise,
lest fools should fail
to find it wise.
- Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent.- The Final Touch: Portrait of nobody in particular
Misattributed
- To be and not to be, that is the answer.
- This witticism derived from William Shakespeare's line "To be or not to be; that is the question" in Hamlet, has sometimes been attributed to Hein, but also to many others. The earliest occurrence so far located in research for Wikiquote was published in A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths () by William Marias Malisoff.