Famous Piet Hein Quotes

  • MankindMen, said the Devil,are good to their brothers:they don’t want to mendtheir own ways, but each other’s. – Piet Hein

    MankindMen, said the Devil,are good to their brothers:they don’t want to mendtheir own ways, but each other’s.– Piet Hein

  • ON PROBLEMSOur choicest planshave fallen through,our airiest castlestumbled over,because of lineswe neatly drewand later neatlystumbled over. – Piet Hein

    ON PROBLEMSOur choicest planshave fallen through,our airiest castlestumbled over,because of lineswe neatly drewand later neatlystumbled over.– Piet Hein

  • Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. – Piet Hein

    Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.– Piet Hein

  • BRAVETo be brave is to behavebravely when your heart is faint.So you can be really brave only when you really ain’t. – Piet Hein

    BRAVETo be brave is to behavebravely when your heart is faint.So you can be really brave only when you really ain’t.– Piet Hein

  • VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong. – Piet Hein

    VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong.– Piet Hein

  • 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. – Piet Hein

    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.– Piet Hein

  • Living isa thing you donow or never –which do you? – Piet Hein

    Living isa thing you donow or never –which do you?– Piet Hein

  • DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.Everything’s eitherconcave or -vex,so whatever you dreamwill be something with sex. – Piet Hein

    DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.Everything’s eitherconcave or -vex,so whatever you dreamwill be something with sex.– Piet Hein

  • Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer. – Piet Hein

    Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.– Piet Hein