46 quotes
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
“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.”
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye."
on Love
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
on Creativity
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
"Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known."
on Fear
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
on Philosophy
"The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships."
on Community
"Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters."
on Childhood
"Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction."
"To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world."
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them."
on Perception
"Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter."
on Relationships
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
on Imagination
"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'"
on Leadership
"No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."
on Life
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
"Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world."
on Inspirational
"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten.""
"If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility."
"But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise."
on Wisdom
