Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

“You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”