Quote #8

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

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Piet Hein

  1. Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.
  2. People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.
  3. Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.
  4. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
  5. Living is a thing you do now or never - which do you?
  6. Put up in a place where it's easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to reme…
  7. There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with art- lessness.
  8. The road to wisdom? - Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.

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