Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
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.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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 single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
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.
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.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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.
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.
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
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.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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29 June, 1900
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31 July, 1944
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