Grooks

Hier findest Du meine Lieblingsgrooks von Piet Hein, einem dänischen, Mathematiker, Naturwissenschaftler und Erfinder. Seine Bücher sind derzeit leider vergriffen.

Mehr als fünf Grooks darf ich leider nicht veröffentlichen, da sie durch Copyright geschützt sind. Aber dafür gibt es jetzt einen Link zur offiziellen Piet Hein Homepage.

A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP
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.

AN OLD SAW RESET
To keep an ever open door
is wisdom’s true advancer;
so they are fools who don’t ask more
than ten wise men can answer.

SIMPLY ASSISTING GOD
I am a humble artist
moulding my earthly clod
adding my labour to nature's,
simply assisting God.
Not that my effort is needed;
yet somehow, I understand,
my maker has willed it that I too should have
unmoulded clay in my hand.

THE ROAD TO WISDOM
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 UNTENABLE ARGUMENT
My adversary's argument
is not alone malevolent
but ignorant to boot.
He hasn't even got the sense
to state his so-called evidence
in terms I can refute.