Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."
For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
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.
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
