Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes From Antoine de Saint-Exupery True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery equality crush men Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. Antoine de Saint-Exupery ocean stars men You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery drunk tree water It's useful because it's beautiful. Antoine de Saint-Exupery beautiful Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone. Antoine de Saint-Exupery creativity stones way Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery men He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy. Antoine de Saint-Exupery taken unhappy made Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Antoine de Saint-Exupery adventure war peace When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile. Antoine de Saint-Exupery smile faces order A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery frightened men children You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you. Antoine de Saint-Exupery you-re-beautiful empty beautiful The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. Antoine de Saint-Exupery effort goal matter I shall never again admire a merely brave man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery admire brave men But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. Antoine de Saint-Exupery indifference figures matter Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes. Antoine de Saint-Exupery flower sky sheep A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. Antoine de Saint-Exupery stars sky water 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery gratitude thankful thank-you It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes Antoine de Saint-Exupery mystery sky looks Straight ahead you can't go very far. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down. Antoine de Saint-Exupery gratitude attitude lying
