Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes and Quotations
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
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 chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something moulded.
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.
There is no hope or joy except in human relations.
Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say, "My men were beaten," he says, "I was beaten."
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten," he says, "I was beaten."
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joy.