Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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